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Former House Speaker Jim Wright dead at 92
AP via Fox News ^
| May 06, 2015
Posted on 05/06/2015 9:01:28 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
DALLAS Jim Wright, a veteran Texas congressman who was the first House speaker in history to driven out of office in midterm, has died. He was 92.
The Harveson and Cole funeral home says Wright died early Wednesday morning. He'd been living at a nursing home in Fort Worth.
Wright represented the Fort Worth area for 34 years, beginning with his election in 1954. He was the Democratic majority leader in the House for a decade, rising to the speakership in January 1987, to replace Tip O'Neill.
But after about two years as House speaker, Wright was charged with 69 violations of House rules on reporting of gifts, accepting gifts from people with an interest in legislation, and limits on outside income. He left office in June 1989
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TOPICS: Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: corruption; fortworthlessjim; obituary; texas
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To: forgotten man
LBJ was worse.There's a library on the UT-Austin campus named after Lyin' Lyndon. But that's par for the course since UT-Austin has long been a leftist indoctrination center. Just as bad is TCU employing Jim Wright as professor. All traces of atheism and leftism must be purged from Texas so that liberty can triumph in this beautiful state.
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posted on
05/06/2015 10:57:49 AM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: Jane Long
Me too! I wonder just what that FReeper was thinking? He/she hasn't responded to my question.
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posted on
05/06/2015 10:59:21 AM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: TexanByBirth
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posted on
05/06/2015 11:08:43 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham; TexanByBirth; Jane Long
The FReeper who posed the bizarre question uses the name of TexanByBirth and like Jim Wright was also birthed in Texas. Perhaps he was upset that I characterized his fellow "native" Texan as a 'RAT? That's all I can figure since he has failed to respond to my question.
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posted on
05/06/2015 11:12:47 AM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: Gaffer
only the good die young....That's because God gives the others lots of chances for repentance.
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posted on
05/06/2015 11:14:25 AM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
To: re_nortex; TexanByBirth; Jane Long
Anyone who knows of Wright or has read his bio would be shocked at any attempt to defend him, even at such a time as this, imho, so I’m mystified.
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posted on
05/06/2015 11:16:05 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: katana
I never heard that one by Bette. Clever.
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posted on
05/06/2015 11:26:54 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(NSA: The only government agency that really listens.)
To: US Navy Vet
May he be rewarded with a snow cone every millennium to relieve him from the heat. RIP.
To: re_nortex; trisham; Jane Long
OK Smart Butt,
Did I say anything or even defend Jim Wright? No, I asked a simple question of you. Which, of course, you didnt answer, but chose to make an assumption about me for some reason. Nice!
Of course I knew the answer before I even asked the question. It is very easy to tell keyboard wizards like you who have no clue what you are talking about by their post on Free Republic. And it is obvious you have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to the State of Texas.
Here is a brief history lesson for you. The reason there are so many freeways and buildings named for Democrats is because Texas has been a blue state for most of its existence. It has only been in the last 20 or so years that Texas has become a red state. And here is a shocker for you, there are buildings named for Democrats in rural Texas too. I guess rural Texas is also a third-world cesspool of socialist.
Here is something else for you to chew. There are buildings and highways named after Ronald Reagan in Texas. Including some in that socialist cesspool know as the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Youve already pulled down your pants and shown me and everyone else on FR your butt by making an unprovoked attack on me. Might as well pull your pants down again. Come on wizard, post a nice pithy comment back to me and prove me right.
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:35:43 PM PDT
by
TexanByBirth
(Free Republic: where they may agree with the message, but they love to shoot the messenger!)
To: trisham; re_nortex; TexanByBirth; Jane Long
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:36:10 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: TexanByBirth; trisham; Jane Long
As I understand it, being born in Texas is oh-so important to you. Native Texans include commie 'RATs like LBJ, Jim Wright, Bob Schieffer, Lloyd Doggett, Domingo Garcia, Ann Richards, Dan Rather, Scott Pelley and many more. Non-native but true Texans include Senator Ted Cruz and Ted Nugent. But by your metric, since they weren't born in this Great State, they're not Texans. So, tell us, is that how your mind works?
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:45:04 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: fwdude
Is it still a four-lane road? I used to go around there at times; it was a g_dawful parking lot every morning! Two lanes in each direction.
(IIRC, WrightFreeway is a segment of Loop820?)
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:49:22 PM PDT
by
__rvx86
(Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
To: re_nortex; TexanByBirth; Jane Long
Oddly enough, very few of us are able to dictate our place of birth.
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:49:31 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: TexanByBirth; trisham; Jane Long
Other "outsiders" include Sam Houston, William Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett...
Guess they're not Texans either.
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:50:04 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: __rvx86
The far West side tends to keep moving, it’s not until you move more to the Northwest and then North leg that it becomes congested. Yeah, Loop 820 is the entire loopy thing.
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:53:57 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: trisham; TexanByBirth; Jane Long
I was conceived (when life begins) in Texas but circumstances were such that my father was killed early in WWII. My Texan-born mother, then 7 months pregnant, relocated with my father's family home in Pennsylvania. That's why I happened to have been born there.
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posted on
05/06/2015 12:54:19 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: re_nortex; TexanByBirth; Jane Long
I’ve never even visited Texas. :)
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:06:55 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham; TexanByBirth; Jane Long; Jim Robinson
Ive never even visited Texas. :) You really need to make the Lone Star State a destination. It's truly a one-of-a-kind place, with beautiful Gulf Coast beaches, scenic hill country vistas and the very finest food of all of the states. The music group Little Texas nailed it with their song, God Blessed Texas.
For a true Bible-believing, pro-liberty, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-sodomy Conservative Patriot, there's no simply better place to be! That's why I moved here by deliberate and thoughtful choice just prior to the time that FReeper TexanByBirth was graduating from A&M. I've been periodically trying to convince Jim and John Robinson to pull up stakes and relocate Free Republic to Texas, the land of the Free!
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:20:22 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: trisham
...and one more quick thing, if your travels bring you here, make a point to call the highway I-635 and not the LBJ Express! :)
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:22:57 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: re_nortex; Jane Long
We have relatives there, but they are mostly far-left types. Most of our relatives and friends are here or in Florida.
Still, I would like to visit Texas one day.
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:25:15 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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