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Former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox near death
Posted on 06/24/2003 3:11:14 PM PDT by conservativefromGa
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To: conservativefromGa
He's still living?
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:13:33 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again.")
To: My2Cents
That was the same reaction I had. For some reason, I thought he had died many years ago.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:15:09 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: My2Cents
He did have a heart attack a few years ago. Found out he had the gene for sicle cell.
To: conservativefromGa
>> Though he had never held public office, Maddox won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1966. In the November general election, Maddox was out-polled by a Republican, but a write-in campaign assured that neither candidate had a majority. Election law at the time threw the election to the Democratic Legislature, which elected Maddox. <<
Betsa all the 'RAT pukes who scream that Bush was "selected for President by the Supreme Court" have no problems with how MADDOX ended up in office. Hell, Bush won no less than FIVE RECOUNTS and was CERTIFIED winner before the Supreme Court stepped in. I wonder how well Maddox THE LOSER was doing before the GA 'RAT machine took a stab at it.
Something also tells me that 'RAT pukes who scream about how "racist" the GOP is don't have anything to say about the segregationist, white-supremist garbage that Maddox unabashedly supported. Funny how it's okay for the 'RAT party to have "former" bigots in power.
Good riddance to old rubbish.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:19:44 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(George Ryan deserves a long term...without parole.)
To: conservativefromGa
I was walking past his restaurant that summer and saw him turn away a carload of blacks. He had no ax handle in his hand and was just standing in the doorway of the restaurant. The carload of blacks drove back out onto the street. Maddox turned to somebody inside and said, "Did you see that?"
To: conservativefromGa
When I was a kid a remember nmy parents taking me to the guvna's mansion and Maddox would ride his bicycle backwards for everyone entertainment.
To: conservativefromGa
Wasn't he the governor who handed out axe handles to his state troopers during the race riots? Or am I thinking of Bull Conner?
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:26:10 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: BillyBoy
Geez, seems like I always wind up defending Lester.
He really, truly is a good man, and I wish him well. We went to the same doctor for many years, and I spent a good deal of time chatting with him in the waiting room.
He grew up in a time and place where segregation was taught to everybody. But within that framework (obviously mistaken and wrong) he was never hateful or mean. He is a stubborn man, and always found it hard to back down. But he always tried to be as fair as he knew how.
People who worked for him - black and white - loved him. His office door was always open to any citizen who had something he or she wanted to talk to the governor about, just walk in and tell him what was on your mind. He was also the first governor of Georgia to appoint a black person to statewide office (he said it was only fair), and he left office poorer than he went in - the ONLY governor who did not profit from his time in office.
So we could have done a lot worse. And as for machinations, the only reason Maddox got the nomination in the first place was all the Republicans who crossed over and voted in the Democratic primary, thinking he would be easier to beat. And you may or may not recall that his opponent was "Bo" Callaway, who later left a national Republican administration post under a cloud. (To the extent that the Army recalled all the commissions he had signed, including my husband's, and substituted commissions over the signature of the new Secretary of the Army.)
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:29:19 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
ROFL!....Good one.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:29:42 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again.")
To: gov_bean_ counter
...you were joking, weren't you?
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:30:04 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again.")
To: conservativefromGa
America's Rasputin?
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:30:26 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
( "Aspire to Mediocracy"..........new motto for publik skools....)
To: My2Cents
He's still living? I'm with you. I hadn't heard anything about this guy in a long time, but he was a real character in his day.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:30:30 PM PDT
by
Scenic Sounds
(Just trying to escape this ugly June gloom, these clouds in A minor, and this vague sense of doom.)
To: My2Cents
Yes...
To: rustbucket
I saw him at a shopping mall near Birmingham, Al back in 1976 when he was going to run for president as an independent. (We were shopping, and not there to see him, I should add.) As I recall, he and his small entourage stopped by a shoe store that had a little kiddie ride inside ...and he was riding it, smiling and waving.
I was 12 at the time, but my impression was that the guy was a complete nutcase.
To: conservativefromGa
When Hosea's troops marched in Cumming Ga. many years ago I was part of the "Thin green line" of National Guardsmen keeping the David Dukes crowd and "Peace" marchers apart. Where I was assigned, Lester Maddox came up the rear. He didn't look good then. He didn't speak a word to anybody and he looked dazed waving his confederate flag around. He looked medicated. There were also several big guys helping him move about.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:33:49 PM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(Once a soldier, always a soldier. They enemies of freedom never rest.)
To: AnAmericanMother
Thanks for the insight.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:40:10 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: Scenic Sounds
Didn't he used to chase blacks out of his chicken resturant with an axe-handle? Great guy.
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posted on
06/24/2003 3:41:40 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again.")
To: conservativefromGa
I'm near Annapolis.
To: anncoulteriscool
"Last night I saw Lester Maddox on tv...He may be a fool, but he's our fool..." to quote Randy Newman's song "Rednecks". Great song!
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