I still remember a coworker of mine back in the late 1980's who was an avowed socialist practically loving the guy.
No comment.
Former MD Governor Hogan keeps saying he's a Reagan Republican. Hogan is a phony. And the Orwellian media began painting Reagan as almost a liberal after Trump was elected.
92? He was still young enough to make a primary run against Trump! :)
I can’t recall there ever being a true conservative Republican politician from Connecticut in the past 50 years—for that matter from any New England state.
“He was probably the biggest RINO to sit as a Republican senator, at least in the past 50 years.”
That’s saying a lot, considering the other ‘Republicans’ from that part of the country. My vote is Lincoln Chaffee, who supported the Democrats far more than the Republicans.
As a resident of the State of Connecticut I have nothing good to say about Lowell Weiker.
So I won’t say anything else.
Weicker was an awful person. He is the one that introduced a state income tax to Connecticut, the only Republican governor ever to lobby for a state income tax.
I remember when Republicans were supporting Joe Lieberman over him. He was part of that generation of truly liberal Republicans like Rockefeller and Lindsey that died off by the mid-1970s (other than him).
Jiggle the handle.
He brought the income tax to CT. He didn’t care how many people hated him. He was an arrogant sob.
His grandfather co-founded Squibb, a pharmaceuticals giant, now part of Bristol Myers.
A grateful nation assumed that since Lowell Weicker was born in Paris he could never become president.
Not sure if that’s still true today.
Though being dead may also be a big disqualifier.
I believe he is the only Republican Barbra Streisand ever endorsed so she could claim she was bipartisan. He also won a Profile in Courage award from the Kennedy family for raising taxes in his state.
Awful man. Prayers for his soul.
I remember him getting booed as our governor.