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To: mkjessup

Let’s all have a Canadian Club on the rocks in honor of Ryan.


88 posted on 04/21/2016 10:00:32 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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Let’s all have a Canadian Club on the rocks in honor of Ryan.

Works for me. Here's to you Congressman:

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(Leo Ryan little known fact: In 1970, using a pseudonym, Ryan had himself arrested, detained, and strip searched to investigate conditions in the California prison system. He stayed as an inmate for ten days in Folsom Prison, while presiding as chairman on the Assembly committee that oversaw prison reform.)

He may have had flaws, and may have been on the liberal side of the fence, but the above bit of trivia tells me that he took his job seriously and he also served as a submariner in the United States Navy during World War II. Rest In Peace Leo.
92 posted on 04/21/2016 10:17:10 AM PDT by mkjessup (If you stand with Cruz, you stand with the GOPe, Jeb, Mitt, iSnarly, Reince & Karl. What's that say?)
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