ann richards...R.I.P.

bigpoppapuff · 09-14-2006, 12:08 PM

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** · 09-14-2006, 12:59 PM

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** · 09-14-2006, 01:59 PM

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 · 09-14-2006, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 09-14-2006, 04:22 PM

CNB

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

bigpoppapuff · 09-14-2006, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by nhcigarfan

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** · 09-14-2006, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by nhcigarfan

CNB

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

**Shelby07** · 09-14-2006, 05:23 PM

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.

bigpoppapuff · 09-14-2006, 05:27 PM

your response,mark,was not the issue...it was the hate-filled response from the piece of shit that is baka...

**Shelby07** · 09-14-2006, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by bigpoppapuff

your response,mark,was not the issue...it was the hate-filled response from the piece of shit that is baka...

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you Sid. Really bad form.

**WhiteWidow** · 09-14-2006, 06:11 PM

I'm sorry she died. Didn't really like her as gov though. Shelby is right about the press thing, its just a good way to make Texans look like a bunch heehaw dipshits.

If they think she was funny they would have LOVED Clayton Williams.

**cigarsarge** · 09-14-2006, 06:29 PM

Pretty bad form to trash the dead. I won't miss her political views but you have to have some compassion for a human life lost. I take no joy in her passing.

Love her or hate her she had guts enough to put her views out for all to see.

**heftysmokes** · 09-14-2006, 06:41 PM

Plus, wasn't she on King Of The Hill? One of the funniest animated shows ever put on television, IMHO.

Damnit, Bobby!

**cigar no baka** · 09-14-2006, 08:46 PM

By good riddance, I say I will not miss her. She was filled with hate for Republicans and said so in many ways many times.

bigpoppapuff · 09-14-2006, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by cigar no baka

By good riddance, I say I will not miss her. She was filled with hate for Republicans and said so in many ways many times.

what a pathetic piece of shit you are...it's easy to hate someone like you...you're a fucking asswipe...

bigpoppapuff · 09-14-2006, 11:13 PM

it's comical how this low rent prick uses the two-faced john kerry...yet he supposedly has me on ignore....he's a no cred asshole...i hope he goes to a bb where some people like him..

**basil** · 09-15-2006, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by cigar no baka

By good riddance, I say I will not miss her. She was filled with hate for Republicans and said so in many ways many times.

This is bullshit spin. Besides your remarks here being inane and classless, you are absolutely wrong about her "doing nothing for Texas". Like WW implied, she ran against Claytie and what a fucking joke that woulda been had he not shot himself in the foot so many times even the rightwingers couldn't ignore what a mistake they were backing. And W as Texas guv? C'mon, you can fuck the tourists, but I live here.

**cigar no baka** · 09-15-2006, 01:20 PM

OK, I officially apologize for my remark "good riddance" to Ann Richards. I had differences with her but it was out of line and classless for me to say that about her. Sorry to everyone.

**basil** · 09-15-2006, 01:47 PM

During her tenure, Texas instituted site-based decision-making in its public schools(What kind of beurocracy dismantling horseshit is that??!?), increased prison space and introduced a nationally respected substance-abuse program (Which actually prototyped in Connecticut. A program now starving to death as repubs, beginning with W, divert and do away with funding. Not always successful, as no treatment completely is, it still beats just warehousing them. I mean, we're spending shitloads anyway to keep people in prison - why NOT give them a dose of re-hab. I'll tell ya why not: other interest groups wanted the money and w said whawright then.) in its prisons. The state also became the nation's leader in the creation of new manufacturing facilities and new or expanded corporate facilities. Hmm, you mean like in new jobs?

A longtime advocate of civil rights and economic justice, Richards created the most representative and inclusive administration in Texas history. She also sought to make government more efficient, authorizing audits that saved the state $6 billion.Wow!

Born in Lakeview, Texas, Richards graduated from Waco High School in 1950 and attended Baylor University on a debate scholarship. After graduating, she went to the University of Texas at Austin probably why WW doesn't like 'er

, where she earned her teaching certificate. From 1955 to 1956, she taught social studies and history at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin.

Richards first became politically active at the University of Texas and remained active while she reared her four children, volunteering in local and statewide campaigns and working for critical social causes.

PLUS, she overcame personal difficulties before and during some of the above that most folks don't survive.

bigpoppapuff · 09-15-2006, 05:10 PM

i,for one,don't accept your apology...you've proven to me that you're a colossal piece of shit...what about the pm's you sent to me??.......you've made this personal..i'll do everything i can to turn people against you so you'll slither away from here....

but wait...you'll never see this because you have me on "ignore"...you're a tool..