Posted on 01/04/2015 11:27:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
Sen. Jay Rockefeller and West Virginia were an odd mix at first—a Harvard-educated native New Yorker from one of the nation’s richest families arriving in one of the poorest states.
Through a half century of public service, he made it work. And as he heads into retirement as the last member of the Rockefeller family dynasty in political office—and the only Democrat—the five-term U.S. senator leaves a blueprint for fighting to fix real-life problems for burdened families and to protect the nation’s coal miners. […]
Rockefeller was the state’s junior senator for 25 years, yet carved his own path of influence in Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s immense shadow. Byrd died in 2010 as the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, winning an enduring reputation for steering billions of dollars over many decades to boost his impoverished state. …
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Rockefeller bought his AR-15 just as the AWB 94 ban was passed and said citizens didn’t need such weapons but he did because he was a U.S. Senator.
Said he kept it behind the front door in case any ‘rightwingers’ showed up to protest his vote for the ban.
Jerk.
I don't think even Pravda wrote the "news" with so little pretense of objectivity.
Bingo!
AP Leftist Hagiography Alert!
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I’m tempted to say that the wrong Rockefeller was eaten by cannibals, but that would be uncharitable so I won’t.
The LIB degenerate was/is a worthless pant stain. Good riddance.
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