[lentulusgracchus]

Lyndon Johnson fiddled some laws in his case and someone else did it in Lloyd Bentsen's case, when he ran for re-election as U. S. Senator from Texas, in the year he was elected Vice President with Jimmuh, was it?

[DoodleDawg]

Lyndon Johnson fiddled some laws in his case and someone else did it in Lloyd Bentsen's case, when he ran for re-election as U. S. Senator from Texas, in the year he was elected.

Johnson had the law changed so he could run for Senate and as vice president in 1960. Bentsen took advantage of the same law change and didn't need to fiddle anything.

...in the year he was elected Vice President with Jimmuh, was it?

Ran with Dukakis in 1988.

[Bratch]

As I remember it, Johnson and Bentsen were Democrats from Democrat-controlled states.

Rand Paul is a Republican in a state where one branch of the Legislature is controlled by Democrats.

There’s no chance of a new statute being passed that would overturn existing law. And, IIRC, Senator Paul has already said he wouldn’t try to get a judge to overturn it.

We’ll see.

[Radtechtravel]

Senator Bentsen was VP running mate with Governor Dukakis against George H. W. Bush in 1987. His debate with Senator J. Danforth Quayle produced the famous line from Bentsen, when Quayle compared himself to JFK: “I knew John Kennedy. John Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no John Kennedy.”