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Fmr. Tex. Gov. Ann Richards Dies
AP News Alert | 9.13.06

Posted on 09/13/2006 7:44:45 PM PDT by mhking

This just crossed my desk...

AUSTIN (AP) -- A family spokeswoman says former Texas Gov. Ann Richards has died at her home.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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To: mhking

Rest in Peace Ann Richard!


421 posted on 09/14/2006 4:48:10 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: Rte66

"Yellow dog" Democrats are non-thinkers; they vote the Democrat ticket no matter who's on it--they would vote for a yellow dog. They brag about it.


422 posted on 09/14/2006 4:54:57 AM PDT by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: nralife

Ah, yes, that good old TEXAS gal, conservative hero, vetoing those concealed carry laws.


423 posted on 09/14/2006 4:59:40 AM PDT by RayStacy
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To: nralife

A feisty,larger than life, character, always said what was on her mind, naughty, and really out there. Exactly and precisely like Michael Moore, and we love him too.


424 posted on 09/14/2006 5:02:00 AM PDT by RayStacy
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Prayers for the family bump.


425 posted on 09/14/2006 5:03:09 AM PDT by dbehsman (Libertarians make poor Humanitarians.)
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To: COEXERJ145
If you don't have anything positive to say about the dead, then you should keep your mouth shut. Sometimes silence is the best thing.

I don't agree. I am not a moral relativist. All deaths are not the same. Why should say something positive about someone in death, whom I did not like or respect in life? Ann Richards was very unkind to the Bush family. That's a fact. Why can't I note that at her death?? And PS - I won't shed any tears for Maureen Dowd and Molly Ivins either.

426 posted on 09/14/2006 5:05:48 AM PDT by veronica (NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
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To: bybybill
she hasn`t from New Jersey,she was a TEXAN.

dumb

427 posted on 09/14/2006 5:08:28 AM PDT by SunnyUsa (No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.)
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To: PhiKapMom
Can you believe this thread? I lived there when she was Governor and to see some of these comments I am sitting here shaking my head. Shouldn't speak ill of the dead but I object to history being rewritten on here. She was a member of Emily's List and was no yellow dog Democrat. She was a LIBERAL!

Plus - no friend to the Bush family. She was trotted out on Larry King many times for the purpose of attacking GWB.

I have a confession to make. I was glad when Yassir Arafat died. And I was not quiet about it here. Apparently that makes me a bad person. :)

428 posted on 09/14/2006 5:10:10 AM PDT by veronica (NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
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To: demonrum
She was one of the best things to happen to America--her passion, her wit, her intelligence.

?????

One of the best things to happen to America??

I must be dreaming.

429 posted on 09/14/2006 5:13:16 AM PDT by veronica (NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
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To: mhking

I have heard the "poor George" quote from the DNC convention in 88' about a dozen times this morning.
Its getting old!
The MSM just loves to play that. It was a good line but enough already.

R.I.P. Ma Richards.


430 posted on 09/14/2006 5:13:21 AM PDT by JRochelle (You can believe what you want, but you can't have your own facts!)
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To: mhking

I didn't know the lady. I came to Texas just as the elections were going on. I do remember she didn't want the Concealed Carry Law. She didn't even want Texans to vote on the issue. Her liberalism cost her the election and gave us George Bush as governor. Bush wouldn't be where he is today if Ann Richards had simply let the people decide on whether they could carry concealed weapons or not.

So in a way, we have Ex Governor Ann Richards to thank for President George Bush.

I wonder what she thought of that? From the comments from the people who met her, she must have laughed at the irony.

RIP Ann Richards


431 posted on 09/14/2006 5:14:03 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems. NRA)
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To: Texasforever
Oh for God's sake. that "RINO" crap is so overused it has lost all meaning.

O.K.

Several years ago, Perry swithced to the GOP because he had statewide political ambitions. His politics didn't change; he merely switched parties in order to be electable statewide. Therefore, Perry is a Republican in name only because he is still thinks like a Democrat's Democrat.

Perry came to my hometown several years ago and had his picture taken having coffee with some local Democrats who don't pay their bills and are known as free-loaders and con-artists. He used the picture in a fund-raising brochure that was mailed out all over Texas.

IMO, Perry is still a Democrat who runs as a Republican --in the true meaning of the term.

432 posted on 09/14/2006 5:14:38 AM PDT by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: mhking
What kind of cancer?

Carolyn

433 posted on 09/14/2006 5:15:14 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: doug from upland

I would bet a years pay the Bushes were not amused. Neither was I.


434 posted on 09/14/2006 5:15:54 AM PDT by Kath (Luvya Dubya)
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To: All; PJ-Comix
This thread demos the basic difference between Free Republic and Democrat Underground
435 posted on 09/14/2006 5:16:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: Hawthorn

> Ann Richards was a conservative democrat <

No disrepect intended either toward you or Mrs. Richards, but when you say was she a "conservative," how on earth can that be true?

EXACTLY!!!! I stand ready to be corrected, so let me see her position on taxes, abortion, guns, and on and on and on and on and on. I lived in TX when this real character, this funny broad, this true original, this witty, real TX lady, was elected, and she reminds me of Michael Moore, B. Mikulsky, and Jesse Jackson -- because she was far more caustic than most elected officials she was dubbed by the press as "down to Earth and plain spoken" -- in other words she could say ANYTHING and get a pass for it.


436 posted on 09/14/2006 5:16:57 AM PDT by RayStacy
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To: JRochelle

When does the Wellstoning begin?


437 posted on 09/14/2006 5:18:03 AM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Richards epitomized the strong Texas gal.

I'm sure there are many Texas FReeperettes who would disagree with you on that.

That said, I'm sorry she's passed away, but I didn't like her--she was a foul democrat.

438 posted on 09/14/2006 5:18:42 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: Texasforever
My recent Democrat congressman, Jim Turner was Pres. of the "Blue Dogs" until he was Delayed out of office--two four(?) years ago.

He was one of the more conservative Dems but would never be mistaken for a conservative.

439 posted on 09/14/2006 5:20:39 AM PDT by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: Lazamataz

Have you counted how many replies have been deleted on this thread and how many members have been warned by the mod, banned or suspended?

Even at that FR beats du by a long shot, their crude remarks are allowed to stand.


440 posted on 09/14/2006 5:20:41 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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