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To: AuH2ORepublican

I wonder if this Silber is related to the former Boston University President John Silber, the unsuccessful Democrat gubernatorial nominee in MA in 1990, and a mentor of the once popular William J. "Bill" Bennett. I know that the MA Silber had some kind of TX roots.


6 posted on 02/02/2005 12:08:10 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.; fieldmarshaldj

"I wonder if this Silber is related to the former Boston University President John Silber, the unsuccessful Democrat gubernatorial nominee in MA in 1990, and a mentor of the once popular William J. "Bill" Bennett. I know that the MA Silber had some kind of TX roots."



Maybe DJ knows, since I know that he liked John Silber (or at least liked him better than Bill Weld).

Isn't John Silber Jewish? I know that there are quite a few Jews in Texas (Martin Frost comes to mind), but it seems odd that San Antonio would elect a Jewish Democrat to the state house in 1970. But then again, Birmingham, AL elected a Jewish Democrat to Congress throughout the 1980s.


7 posted on 02/02/2005 12:30:27 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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