Here is the link to the thread from yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565980/posts
***Whistle*** ...WOW!
Thanks for the link. Here's another FR take on that.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:lD4o35Frro0J:www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561685/posts%3Fpage%3D85
TITLE: Small world, isn't it Splash? (background information on Mrs. Alito's tears in the hearings)
1/20/06 Posted on 01/20/2006 9:54:55 AM PST by dead
I have an interesting tidbit of information to share. My old college roommate's mother is friends with Judge Alito's mother. They go to the same church in Roseland, New Jersey.
Well, the judge's mother shared something with her that hasn't been in the papers and may bring a different perspective to those tears Alito's wife shed in the hearing.
It seems Judge Alito's wife (the former Martha-Ann Bomgardner) has had personal reasons to dislike Senator Kennedy since long before Splash's shameful treatment of her husband.
Long ago, the Senator was also less than kind to girl whose family was friends with the Bombgardner family. A girl that Martha-Ann knew fairly well before her untimely demise. A girl named Mary Jo Kopechne.
DEAD POSTED Mary Jo Kopechne was born in 1940 while Martha Alito was born in 1953 - thirteen years later. I was told that they were family friends. I have many family friends far more separated from me than 13 years. A family friend could be fifty years separated from you.
Ms. Kopechne was raised in Pennsylvania while Mrs. Alito was raised in Kentucky with family roots in Oklahoma and Texas. I thought that might be a problem with the story too, but it's not:
Martha-Ann Bomgardner was born in Kentucky, but moved to Mount Holly Pennsylvania after her father, an air traffic controller in the Air Force, was transferred to McGuire Air Force Base. She is a 1971 graduate of Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly. Source: PhillyBurbs.com