Reply #71: The usual suspects: Chafee, Snowe, and one more big weird one:

[Withywindle]

I have to put one in for former IL Governor George Ryan. He's a thoroughly rotten, corrupt rip-off artist--but that moratorium on the death penalty, that days of listening so intently to grueling testimony from prisoners' families, victims' families, and victims of police brutality, and that final mass commutation of sentences at the end of his term, was one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed in state politics (any of the states I've lived in).

Lots of Dems could take a lesson in conscience and balls from that. And a lot of lefties could take a lesson about how a politician can be a complete scumbag on some levels and also accomplish great things that really benefit real people at the same time. I certainly did.