His district might have been more suburban than urban.
And yeah, he was mucho divisivo.
Alger was sort of a "Yankee" himself.
Born in Dallas, raised in Missouri, educated at Princeton.
Posted on 04/29/2015 1:24:04 PM PDT by SMGFan
Bruce Alger, a provocative Republican congressman from Texas whose staunch conservative views prefigured the tea party movement decades later, and whose angry confrontation with Lyndon Johnson may have affected the outcome of the 1960 presidential election, died April 13 at an assisted living facility in Palm Bay, Fla. He was 96.
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Liberal media bias??... What Liberal media bias!?? /s LOL!
RIP
Ah, yes...always “controversial” “Divisive”
Imagine a time when Dallas was conservative. I can’t.
Yes, saying that marriage is a man/woman institution in now “controversial.”
Lots of negative adjectives. Meanwhile Robert “kkk” Bryd is hailed in death no mention negative adjectives.
what was controversial about him then
In 1980, Ronald Reagan wanted the RNC convention to be in Dallas, but he was told it would be important to have it in Detroit. He then said that next time he wanted Dallas. He really liked it here.
His district might have been more suburban than urban.
And yeah, he was mucho divisivo.
Alger was sort of a "Yankee" himself.
Born in Dallas, raised in Missouri, educated at Princeton.
Southern Democrats were even conservative back then.
That is true. I have a friend who still believes that Texas democrats really haven’t changed much from the 1960s. We don’t talk politics.
That's because he didn't believe that the proper role of Congress was to wheel and deal for pork and earmarks, and he refused to do so.
In other words, it was a conservative city, one of the few big cities with a Republican mayor. That is no longer the case.
Setting aside the shot at the Tea Party, it was Nixon that actually said it:
The sentiment of voters turned toward John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate, in the final days of the campaign. Nixon later said, “Well, we lost Texas in 1960 because of that ... congressman in Dallas” — referring to Alger with a vulgar epithet.
Alger was pretty rare as a Republican holding office in Texas at the time, and the politician who unseated him was a Democrat who'd been mayor in the 60s.
One of the political giants in Texas (and unapologetic Conservatives). A lot better than the corrupt leftist trash that came out of the state at that time (*cough*LBJ*cough*). RIP.
I was referring to the use of words like “provocative Republican congressman”, “staunch conservative views”, “angry”. Shoe on the other foot, they would never describe a liberal democrat in a manner like this, regardless of how fitting it was (provocative, staunch views, angry, etc).
We moved out in 2008 for greener, more conservative, suburban pastures. (Also, we were living on ther *other* side of the Trinity–everyone knows how bad crime is in Oak Cliff)
Every now and then, I see random cars on the road with a "TED CRUZ" home-made bumper sticker...makes my day!
Would anyone who's been around longer than I have (I'm 19) care to describe what Dallas was like then?
Nixon might have won the state had he run on a conservative platform instead of as a mushy moderate, and had he chosen a solid conservative running mate such as Rep. Walter Judd (R-Minn.) instead of the RINO Boston Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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