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Posted on 11/25/2024 5:31:42 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
Oklahoma residents on Sunday mourned the death of former Democratic U.S. Sen. Fred Harris, a trailblazer in progressive politics in the state who ran an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1976. Harris died on Saturday at 94.
Democratic Party members across Oklahoma remembered Harris for his commitment to economic and social justice during the 1960s — a period of historical turbulence. Harris chaired the Democratic National Committee from 1969 to 1970 and helped unify the party after its tumultuous national convention in 1968 when protesters and police clashed in Chicago.
“Fred Harris showed us what is possible when we lead with both heart and principle. He worked to ensure everyone had a voice and a seat at the table,” said Alicia Andrews, chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party.
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He was still alive?! He ran for president the same year as Jimmy Carter, 1976.
Apparently so...just faded away.
His campaign slogan was, “No more bullsh!t.”
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“Mourn” a democrat?
I don’t think any demonrat deserves mourning.
Back when Oklahoma was a swing state and Vermont solidly Republican.
There was a time when Democrats didn’t eat shit for breakfast.
Starting in 1968 our US Senators have all been Republican except for David Boren. Since 1948 Oklahoma has voted for the democrat presidential candidate one time for Johnson in 1964 and if Kennedy hadn’t been shot Goldwater would have won that year.
Fred R. Harris won the remainder of Robert S. Kerr’s term in 1964 and just barely won again in 1966. Dewey Bartlett won the seat in 1972.
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