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Bruce Alger, controversial Dallas congressman in '50s and '60s , dies at 96 (GOP conservative)
Dallas news ^
| April 25, 2015
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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: texas
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:24:04 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
To: SMGFan
"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"Liberal media bias??... What Liberal media bias!?? /s LOL!
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:27:58 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: SMGFan
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:28:41 PM PDT
by
StoneWall Brigade
(And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
To: ETL
Ah, yes...always “controversial” “Divisive”
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:28:54 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(The First Amendment = Freedom of Religion = Religious Liberty = Applies to Everyone)
To: SMGFan
Imagine a time when Dallas was conservative. I can’t.
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:29:00 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: A_Former_Democrat
Yes, saying that marriage is a man/woman institution in now “controversial.”
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:29:40 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: SMGFan
Lots of negative adjectives. Meanwhile Robert “kkk” Bryd is hailed in death no mention negative adjectives.
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:30:54 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: SMGFan
what was controversial about him then
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:36:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Clearly Cruz 2016)
To: fwdude
When I first moved to Dallas in 1975, about the only Republican that anyone knew was the Republican congressman from the 3rd district North Dallas and Richardson area. By 1980, lots of good conservatives had moved into the suburbs all around Texas and we voted Republican in droves. It took a little while for the R's to take over.
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.
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:41:11 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
To: fwdude
Imagine a time when Dallas was conservative. I cant.
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.
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:45:49 PM PDT
by
x
To: Slyfox
Southern Democrats were even conservative back then.
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:50:27 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: fwdude
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.
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posted on
04/29/2015 1:52:23 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
To: SMGFan
Alger was ranked by the Washington press corps as the second-least-effective member of Congress, after Adam Clayton Powell 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.
To: SMGFan
Alger was elected to the U.S. House in 1954 from a district that included Dallas, which was long considered a cauldron of extreme right-wing views. In other words, it was a conservative city, one of the few big cities with a Republican mayor. That is no longer the case.
To: ETL
Liberal media bias??... What Liberal media bias!?? 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.
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posted on
04/29/2015 2:05:31 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
To: Fiji Hill
It looks like Dallas has had several Republican mayors in recent decades, but that may not have been the case when Alger was in Congress.
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.
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posted on
04/29/2015 2:08:55 PM PDT
by
x
To: SMGFan; Impy; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; Theodore R.; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; ...
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.
To: justlurking
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).
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posted on
04/29/2015 2:17:43 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: fwdude
I wish I could have lived in *that* Dallas.
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?
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posted on
04/29/2015 2:24:35 PM PDT
by
__rvx86
(Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
To: justlurking
Nixon later said, Well, we lost Texas in 1960 because of that ... congressman in Dallas referring to Alger with a vulgar epithet. 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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