[Dog Gone]

The left is blinded by their hate for the Bush family. But this one is really weird. Had it been true, wouldn't this have been a good thing by their standards?

[summer]

I guess - but, I mean, the guy's been dead for 50+ years by the time of the 1998 FL gov race. Also, if you're trying to understand more about the people mentioned in the book, and you go online to research, well -- you get a very different impression of the GOP after you read about "Tom Mooney" than after you read about the unmentioned Tom Feeney.

[summer]

From the link I posted about "Tom Mooney" who was allegedly framed:

...After the publication of this new evidence it was generally believed that Charles Fickert and Martin Swanson had framed Mooney and Billings. However, Republican governors over the next twenty years: William Stephens (1917-1923), Friend Richardson (1923-1927), Clement Young (1927-1931), James Rolph (1931-1934) and Frank Merriam (1934-39) all refused to order the release of the two men. The international campaign to free Mooney and Billings continued. In a survey carried out in 1935 and it was discovered that Tom Mooney was one of the four best known Americans in Europe (other three were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh and Henry Ford).

In 1937 a group of politicians led by Caroline O'Day, Nan Honeyman, Jerry O'Connell, Emanuel Celler, James E. Murray, Vito Marcantonio, Gerald Nye and Usher Burdick asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt to intercede in the case. When Roosevelt declined Murray and O'Connell introduced a resolution in the Senate calling on Governor Frank Merriam to pardon Mooney and Billings.

In November 1938 Culbert Olson was elected as Governor of California. He was the first member of the Democratic Party to hold this office for forty-four years. Soon after gaining power Olson ordered that Mooney and Warren Billings should be released from prison. Rena Mooney, who welcomed her husband as he left San Quentin was quoted as saying: "These twenty-two long years have been moth-eaten. Life to me has been something like a cloak. There is little left but the tatters."

Geesh!

[summer]

From the link I posted about Feeney, whose name was omitted from the book:

...On November 21, 2000, Tom Feeney was sworn in as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and in 2001 was ranked among the most effective legislators of the year by the Miami Herald. Tom Slade, past Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida said "Feeney is the most philosophically disciplined and principled member of state government that I've ever known."

In Congress, Feeney serves on the powerful Financial Services and Judiciary committees as well as the Science committee which overseas NASA. He is also a Deputy Whip and serves as the Freshman Representative to the Leadership. He intends to focus on tort reform and tax reform in the 108th Congress. ,br>
Quite a difference in what info one walks away with, don't you think? :)

[summer]

From the link I posted about Feeney, whose name was omitted from the book:

...On November 21, 2000, Tom Feeney was sworn in as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and in 2001 was ranked among the most effective legislators of the year by the Miami Herald. Tom Slade, past Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida said "Feeney is the most philosophically disciplined and principled member of state government that I've ever known."

In Congress, Feeney serves on the powerful Financial Services and Judiciary committees as well as the Science committee which overseas NASA. He is also a Deputy Whip and serves as the Freshman Representative to the Leadership. He intends to focus on tort reform and tax reform in the 108th Congress.

Quite a difference in what info one walks away with, don't you think? :)