Posted on 05/06/2015 9:01:28 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
DALLAS – Jim Wright, a veteran Texas congressman who was the first House speaker in history to driven out of office in midterm, has died. He was 92.
The Harveson and Cole funeral home says Wright died early Wednesday morning. He'd been living at a nursing home in Fort Worth.
Wright represented the Fort Worth area for 34 years, beginning with his election in 1954. He was the Democratic majority leader in the House for a decade, rising to the speakership in January 1987, to replace Tip O'Neill.
But after about two years as House speaker, Wright was charged with 69 violations of House rules on reporting of gifts, accepting gifts from people with an interest in legislation, and limits on outside income. He left office in June 1989
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He was a good golfer, I reckon. (Stretching for something nice to say.)
BIH, JW
Just another trough-feeder biting the dust.
Thanks for sharing, but who cares?
I cringe every time I have to drive every day on a freeway bearing his name.
“We only wanna hep you”
One should only speak good of the dead. Etc., etc. .....
No comment.
There’s a Billy Joel song out there that has a line “....only the good die young....”
-PJ
Jim’s dead, Jim.
I thought he died long ago......................
“There’s a Billy Joel song out there that has a line “....only the good die young....””
Billy Joel is pretty old by now. Just sayin’...
Yep, old Ft. Worthless Jim Wright was punished for accepting union money.
When is Hillary going to be punished for getting money from Middle East despots, unions, everyone who had a checkbook and wanted a favor? Inquiring minds want to know.
We’re now in a new paradigm where Democrat corruption is rewarded.
In DFW his ‘wright amendment’ prevented Southwest airlines from flying direct flights to long distance airports from Love Field as to not compete with DFW Airport. There had to be some hidden cookies in it for him. That amendment last year was totally voided.
It's disgusting that so many of the freeways and other roads in this part of Texas are named after traitorous 'RATs. In addition to the Jim Wright Freeway, there's the LBJ Express, Sam Rayburn Tollway, S. M. Wright Freeway, R.L. Thornton Freeway and Marvin D. Love Freeway. Yet not a single one named to honor either Presidents Calvin Coolidge or Ronald Reagan. While the rural parts of Texas are great, that's proof of the urban areas (Dallas and Ft. Worth among them) being third world, socialist cesspools.
NOTHING good to say about him. . . .
No it went: “We jes, we jest wanna hep yuuu”
Yeah, the best they could do is the Bush Tollway, might as well be a Democrat.
Nope, don't miss Ft Worthless Jim at all.
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