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Former Speaker of the House Tom Foley dead at 84
The Spokesman Review ^
| 10/18/2013
| Spokesman Review
Posted on 10/18/2013 8:59:03 AM PDT by volunbeer
Tom Foley, a Spokane native who rose to the highest position in the U.S. House of Representatives – a spot two heartbeats away from president – is dead at 84.
TOPICS: History; Local News
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He has been awfully quiet since retirement.
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posted on
10/18/2013 8:59:03 AM PDT
by
volunbeer
To: volunbeer
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posted on
10/18/2013 8:59:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: volunbeer
....I’m pretty sure he’ll be even quieter now.
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posted on
10/18/2013 8:59:54 AM PDT
by
tatown
("So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it's still white men's fault.")
To: tatown
Will he continue to vote Democrat?
To: volunbeer
Involuntarily removed from office in November, 1994. Haven’t missed him. Won’t miss him.
To: volunbeer
Richly with ridiculous display
The politician’s corpse was laid away
While his acquaintances sneered and slanged
I wept.. for I longed to see him hanged.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:02:20 AM PDT
by
ArtDodger
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:02:23 AM PDT
by
tatown
("So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it's still white men's fault.")
To: volunbeer
The flames of hell just spiked.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:03:49 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: a fool in paradise
Will he continue to vote Democrat?A certainty if he's entombed in Chicago.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:06:32 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: volunbeer
I always loved him as Jimmy Olsen on TV’s Superman.
To: volunbeer
It appears Foley taught Pelosi everything she knows about ignoring the will of the people and illegally passing laws anyway.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:12:24 AM PDT
by
Wiser now
(Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
To: volunbeer
Counting his cash from his insider IPOs that he alone was privy to for early buy in. Yet another crook, lining his pockets.. oh yes- all legal and such. A venture socialist.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:19:10 AM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: volunbeer
Well....I’ll say this: Tom Foley was the ONLY Democrat that I EVER voted for. Two reasons: 1) I was young and didn’t know the evil the Democrats are capable of, and 2) the Republican who was running against him at the time was a brainless idiot.
I have since repented.
BTW...I opened the door for him at a laundromat in Spokane where he used to take his suits. He rolled up in a limo with Secret Service protection (he was Speaker at the time). He smiled at me.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:19:50 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: volunbeer
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:21:22 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: volunbeer
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:25:37 AM PDT
by
rrrod
(at home in Medellin Colombia)
To: volunbeer
He has been awfully quiet since retirement.
He was forced into retirement by the voters after he took the referendum for term limits to court in Washington State!!!
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:26:57 AM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: volunbeer
To: John S Mosby
Counting his cash from his insider IPOs that he alone was privy to for early buy in.42 insider trades in the 90's? Sweet.
Nowadays, they just hit that revolving door and make their money lobbying on K Street.
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:29:07 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: volunbeer
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posted on
10/18/2013 9:30:48 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: hoagy62
I think the past couple of weeks have taught us that there was nothing unusual about him. He was absolutely typical of inside-the-beltway types.
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