Posted on 07/05/2016 10:50:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Abner Mikva, a liberal stalwart from Illinois who served in all three branches of the federal government, mentored a young Barack Obama and famously learned firsthand the brazen nature of Chicago’s political machine, has died.
The 90-year-old died of bladder cancer Monday at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Steven Cohen, who is married to Mikva’s oldest of three daughters, told The Associated Press.
Mikva worked his way up from a welfare-recipient family to the Illinois House, U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Court of Appeals’ bench and later the White House as an adviser to President Bill Clinton. But his story about his initial attempt to get involved in Chicago politics became legendary in Illinois. …
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If only he had put his God-given talents to promoting good instead of evil, what might Mikva have been ? Prayers for a misguided soul.
They are going to have to screw him into the ground like a cork screw. He was that crooked.
—he was early on , one of the most viciously anti-gun members of Congress-—
“Mikva worked his way up from a welfare-recipient family to the Illinois House, U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Court of Appeals’ bench and later the White House as an adviser to President Bill Clinton.”
Sounds like the guy never got off the government teat.
For this, he deserves the maledictions of all honest men.
What are the odds this deceased person wasn't a disciple of the hideous Saul Alinsky?
Excuse the grammar sidebar, but this is an AP article and look at this sentence fragment from the article:
“A friend of Mikva’s told the AP about how Mikva and him disagreed publicly over ....”
If I'm not mistaken, I believe he's even mentioned in "Unintended Consequences". In the book his character gets taken out by Patriots in a hit and run.
Rejoice! Another tyrant passes!
He and Alinsky were quite close at one time, FWICS.
He was close with Newt Minow—a vast wasteland.
Anti-gun to the core! No great loss.
Another slot in the DC Uni-Party section of Hell is filled.
This is BS how his family was on welfare. A oft repeated lie. Mikva was never an honest person.
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