Posted on 02/07/2016 6:57:13 PM PST by Libloather
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But Bernie Sanders also kept busy by co-sponsoring a bill to "designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Marble Street in Fair Haven, Vermont, as the "Matthew Lyon Post Office Building".
If you guessed that Matthew Lyon was an otherwise obscure progressive hero who was mainly known for making an ass out of himself, also being sent to prison under the Alien and Sedition Act, you would be correct.
The Lyon post office renaming bill happened in 2005-2006. Then Bernie Sanders rested on his laurels for 7 years, before buckling down and renaming the other Vermont post office in 2013-2014.
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Most of the terms we’d use today weren’t then, but I’d tend to ascribe the more rough-hewn members, as opposed to the more upper-class aristocratic types, as a populist sort. Moving out west to KY & AR was the best thing for Lyon’s career, as he was more of that type of Western politician. A little too coarse for the more refined Eastern Vermonters.
He continued his political career in Western KY without missing a beat, got elected to the state legislature at Frankfort a year after leaving Vermont & DC in 1802 and returned a year after that back to DC in Congress. After he was defeated in 1811, he moved to Arkansas Territory and came close to being elected U.S. Delegate in 1821. He died there a year later and was initially buried in Western AR, but had him returned to Eddyville, KY, which had been his hometown while serving in Congress.
Eddyville is the county seat of Lyon County, which is named for Matthew Lyon’s family (accredited to his son, Chittenden, who also served a stint in the KY legislature and Congress). Chittenden is buried near his father. When I think of “Lyon”, it’s a name I associate with Western KY.
Most Democrat’s are far too busy with more important things than actually doing government work. So little time, and some many bribes...
So, Greenfield is saying Bernie's the sweet Grampa version of Bill Ayers? Now that's creepy.
Ha...Trump gets to name the one he brought at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave:
Stand by for "The Office of the Presumptive President Elect...at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave
(...is that Ted down there in front ....^...with a bucket collecting donations......../snicker)
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