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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: harrowup

Hitting the beer already, "Admiral"?!?


541 posted on 09/14/2006 2:36:58 PM PDT by veronica (NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
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To: txroadkill

I must be slow or exhausted after a long day, but did you drive Ann Richards or someone named JC Penney?


542 posted on 09/14/2006 2:56:58 PM PDT by merry10
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To: merry10

LOL-- I drove Ann. --- She was a board member for JC Penney Co. after she lost to Bush. Vernon Jordan was too (Clinton's Lawyer and friend).


543 posted on 09/14/2006 3:09:19 PM PDT by txroadkill
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To: publana

Ann Richards didn't think the public should be able to carry concealed handguns. This is after a horrible massacre at a Lubby's cafeteria in which one of the victims lost her parents and testified how a CCW law could have saved their lives.

Richards not only worked furiously against the Bill, she didn't even want the voters to have a referendum on it.

I want you to understand while she was in your opinion a fantastic governor, she didn't mind defenceless victims of murder. That's why she lost the election to George Bush. That's why he was nominated for the presidency. That's why gore is relatively unemployed now.

RIP Anne, you and the rest of the libs helped us more than you will ever know.


544 posted on 09/14/2006 3:16:06 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems. NRA)
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To: peyton randolph
"Never liked her politics.

Always admired her cojones."

Amen!

Rest in peace, Ann Richards. The world has lost a real one-of-a-kind, but Texan through and through.

545 posted on 09/14/2006 3:21:47 PM PDT by Texas_shutterbug
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To: ReignOfError

Yep, funny is funny. She deadpanned that line like a pro.


546 posted on 09/14/2006 3:23:44 PM PDT by Texas_shutterbug
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To: Blue Jays
Whoever knew Governor Ann Richards had a bright silver tongue-piercing?


547 posted on 09/14/2006 3:25:57 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: EveningStar

Amen to that. And yup, she was a Texan through and through. Condolences to her family and friends.


548 posted on 09/14/2006 3:29:10 PM PDT by TeddyCon
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To: RayStacy
real TX lady

Ann Richards was a woman; she was not a "lady."

549 posted on 09/14/2006 3:29:26 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: MotleyGirl70

Amen!


550 posted on 09/14/2006 3:30:34 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: DesScorp

Agree!


551 posted on 09/14/2006 3:31:50 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: top 2 toe red
Toally agree with every word you said, Veronica. I saw this first hand when my ex father-in-law died. Most anyone that knew him while he was alive, knew him to be mean, mean despicable man, and yet when he died, many of these same people wailed and cried and carried on about how much he would be missed. My feelings then and now, he was a sonofab**** while he was alive...he was a sonofab**** when he died. Death does not change the life lived.

I don't know why some feel compelled to make saints out of people merely because they die.

552 posted on 09/14/2006 4:24:05 PM PDT by veronica (NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Amen.


553 posted on 09/14/2006 5:06:29 PM PDT by demonrum ("That rug really tied the room together")
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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.

Or say what I say when a prominent lefty dies..."S/he was a worthy adversary."

554 posted on 09/14/2006 5:09:52 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Would you like to join the OFFICIAL Oakland Raiders ping list? Sure you would, send me freepmail.)
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To: deport

Thank you so much for finding those threads for me! No wonder I missed them - "woman in limo with jfk dies" or something like that.

Just glad I could say something on there. 'Preciate it.


555 posted on 09/14/2006 5:45:24 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: publana

You wrote: " ... She loved Texas and Texas will miss her. ..."

That's almost word for word one of the things Dubya and Laura said in their statement about her today.


556 posted on 09/14/2006 5:50:23 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: gcruse
Yes she did say: "Poor George. He cain't he'p it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

I wrote a variant for Clinton: "Poor Bill. He cain't he'p it. He was born with a forked tongue in his mouth."

557 posted on 09/14/2006 5:54:56 PM PDT by reg45
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To: txroadkill

Oh, I was confused! Sounds like your experience with her was not bad!


558 posted on 09/14/2006 6:14:14 PM PDT by merry10
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To: veronica

Something a person can say about an opponent reveals more about the speaker than the opponent.


559 posted on 09/14/2006 6:40:22 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems. NRA)
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To: reg45
Or, for most liberal Demoncrats:
"They cain't he'p it. They're born with psychological defects."
560 posted on 09/14/2006 6:45:46 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
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