ann richards...R.I.P.

[bigpoppapuff]

a good lady
a good politician


Ann Richards, Ex-Governor of Texas, Dies at 73

By RICK LYMAN
Published: September 14, 2006
Ann W. Richards, the silver-haired Texas activist who galvanized the 1988 Democratic National Convention with her tart keynote speech and was the state’s 45th governor until upset in 1994 by an underestimated challenger named George W. Bush, died Wednesday at her home in Austin. She was 73.

Ann Richards’s Keynote Address to the 1988 Democratic National ConventionMs. Richard died, surrounded by her four children, of complications from the esophageal cancer, the Associated Press reported.

Ms. Richards was the most recent and one of the most effective in a long-line of Lone Star State progressives who vied for control of Texas in the days when it was largely a one-party Democratic enclave, a champion of civil rights, gay rights and feminism. Her defeat by the future president was one of the chief markers of the end of generations of Democratic dominance in Texas.

So cemented was her celebrity on the national stage, however, that she appeared in national advertising campaigns, including one for snack chips, and was a lawyer and lobbyist for Public strategies and Verner, Lipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand.

“Poor George, he can’t help it,” Ms. Richards said at the Democratic convention in 1988, speaking about the current president’s father, former President George Bush. “He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”

Her acidic, plain-spoken keynote address was one of the year’s political highlights and catapulted the one-term Texas governor into a national figure.

“We’re gonna tell how the cow ate the cabbage,” she said, bringing the great tradition of vernacular Southern oratory to the national political stage in a way that transformed the mother of four into an revered icon of feminist activism.

[Shelby07]

I saw this on the news this morning and it struck me that here was an intelligent woman who obviously had a lot of supporters and had spent several years of her life as a public servant. But what will be her legacy and her greatest accomplishment according to our news media? There was no mention in the story I saw about any of her public views or accomplishments. The only thing that was shown was a wise crack at the democratic convention about George Bush. I don't think that's what she would have wanted to be remembered for, and I think it's a damn shame. I wish they had come up with something else. It's why I dislike the news media so much.

...and that's all I'm gonna say about that.

[cigar no baka]

I'm not mourning her. Good riddance. She was all talk and panache and no substance and did nothing for Texas except keep the good ole'boy network running and keep the yellow-dog demoncrat dictatorship in place. T

Thank God the Republicans finally took over in Texas. It's so much fun to watch the Demoncrats here scream and holler while the Republicans take apart the machinery that kept them in power and replace it with one of their own.

[bigpoppapuff]

I'm not mourning her. Good riddance. She was all talk and panache and no substance and did nothing for Texas except keep the good ole'boy network running and keep the yellow-dog demoncrat dictatorship in place. T

Thank God the Republicans finally took over in Texas. It's so much fun to watch the Demoncrats here scream and holler while the Republicans take apart the machinery that kept them in power and replace it with one of their own.

exactly the response i figured i'd get from a prick like you...why don't you go start another thread to try and build up some cred here...you're a piece of shit...

[nhcigarfan]

CNB

Politics aside, I find any post stating good riddance in regards to someones passing distasteful.

[bigpoppapuff]

CNB

Politics aside, I find any post stating good riddance in regards to someones passing distasteful.

consider the source,tyler...baka is a fucking tool...i got the response that i knew i'd get from the no-class,no-cred,piece of shit that is baka...

[heftysmokes]

CNB

Politics aside, I find any post stating good riddance in regards to someones passing distasteful.

[Shelby07]

Well, I didn't mean to start anything but I do want to say that my original post was aimed at the press, not Ann Richards. I don't care what her politics were, she was a public servant respected and loved by many who she served and she deserved a better rememberance and reference to her service than what they gave her. It just pissed me off.

EDIT: BTW, I would feel the same way if it were George Bush or Bill or Hillary Clinton. I think the press and talk radio does a great disservice to all of us and they are the biggest reason that otherwise reasonable and good people hate each other because of their political views and beliefs. Unfortunately, people like Katie Couric, Dan Rather and Rush Limbaugh will probably be held up as heroes when their time comes and we will see endless memorials and specials about them. They are, after all, very good at patting themselves on the back every chance they get. Something is very wrong here.