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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 10:42 PM
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Hey! Texas DEMs! Poppy Bush screwed ya in 1963!
So, it seems Poppy Bush has a personal feud going way back with the Texas Democrats. On Nov. 9, 1963 George Herbert Walker Bush sued the Texas Democratic Party in federal court to force a redistricting plan and won, creating a toehold that became today's GOP dominated South, thanks to that so-and-so Richard Nixon. The no-good turds probably knew what they were doing, unlike today's unelected fraud and sociopathic moron. Heil Bush!


George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin


Chapter -X

Rubbers Goes to Congress

During the heat of the senate campaign, Bush's redistricting lawsuit had progressed in a way that must have provided him much solace amidst the bitterness of his defeat. When Bush won his suit in the Houston federal district court, there was a loud squawk from Governor John Connally, who called that august tribunal as a "Republican court." Bush whined that Connally was being "vitriolic." During Bush's primary campaign, a three-judge panel of the federal circuit court of appeals had ruled that the state of Texas must be redistricted. Bush called that result "a real victory for all the people of Texas." By March, Bush's redistricting suit had received favorable action by the US Supreme Court. This meant that the way was clear to create a no-incumbent, designer district for George in a masterpiece of gerrymandering that would make him an elected official, the first Republican Congressman in the recent history of the Houston area.

The new Seventh District was drawn to create a liberal Republican seat, carefully taking into account which areas Bush had succeeded in carrying in the senate race. What emerged was for the most part a lilly-white, silk-stocking district of the affluent upper middle and upper crust. There were also small black and Hispanic enclaves. In the precinct boxes of the new district, Bush had rolled up an eight to five margin over Yarborough.

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Briscoe's campaign ads stressed that he was a right-winger and a Texan, and accused Bush of being "the darling of the Lindsey - Javits crowd," endorsed by labor unions, liberal professors, liberal Republicans and liberal syndicated columnists. Briscoe was proud of his endorsements from Gov. John Connally and the Conservative Action Committee, a local right-wing group. One endorsement for Bush that caused Briuscoe some difficulty was that of Bush mentor Richard M. Nixon. By 1966, Nixon was on the comeback trail, having wihstood the virtual nervous breakdown he had undergone after losing his bid for the governorship of California in 1962. Nixon was now in the course of assembling the delegates that would give him the GOP presidential nomination in Miami in 1968. Nixon came to Houston and made campaign appearances for Bush, as he had in 1964.

CONTINUED...

http://www.tarpley.net/bush10.htm

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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 10:53 PM
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1. Interesting info...........and I guess Bullock finished Tx. off when he
crossed party lines and backed Dubya for governor.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 11:13 PM
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2. Anyone who supports W is a turd, too.
The thing is, today's big hullaballoo started 40 years ago. The assassination of JFK cleared the way for today's rise of the American Reich, using the ballot box when needed. Relying on the bullet and plane crash when warranted.

Here's Bullock turning up in the current imbroglio:

Analysis: Texas Democrats again flee state

By Phil Magers
Published 7/29/2003 12:53 PM

DALLAS, July 29 (UPI) -- A new walkout by Democrats has intensified the growing political feud in the Texas Legislature over a Republican plan to redraw lines of the state's 32 congressional districts.

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The GOP has a 19-12 Senate majority, and while the Democrats blocked action under the two-thirds rule with the help of a Republican defector they can't block action when the two-thirds rule is suspended unless they break the quorum.

Dewhurst contends suspending the two-thirds tradition has precedent because Democratic Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock did the same thing in 1992 during a special session on redistricting but Democrats argue that was different because there was no objection.

Most political observers say Texans have taken little interest in the continuing debate. Although 89 percent of the witnesses who appeared at Senate hearings were opposed to changing the districts, Republicans said the sessions were packed by Democrat activists.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030728-024706-8456r
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 11:21 PM
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3. Poppy also had another "weapon" back then
Poppy had an association of some kind with the C.I.A. even back in 1963.
Remember the oilman George de Morhenschildt(sp) who died, supposedly a suicide, the day before he was to testify before the Church Committee, which was looking into the JFK & other assassinations?

Mr. de Morhenwhateverhisnameis had an old address book that listed George "Poppy" Bush, of the C.I.A., then living on Briar Road in Houston. Poppy has given conflicting stories of his whereabouts on 11/22/63...but I'm not suggesting anything unsavory, just relating what I've read.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 11:57 PM
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5. Unsavory isn't the word. Treason is the one most apt.
The late Mr. de Mohnrenschildt had both Poppy Bush's and Lee Harvey Oswald's addresses and contact info in his little black book. There's quite a bit of history between the three individuals, even if Bush can't remember where he was on November 22, 1963. This guy's got the goods archived:

http://www.ciajfk.com/

The site is almost impossible to navigate. No matter where you go, though, you'll find interesting stuff on the Bush Organized Crime Family. To get to stuff on Dallas's finest:

1, DON'T Click "de Mohrenschildt" on the left hand button listing.

2. Instead scroll in the right frame down to "CLICK HERE FOR BUSH-ATTA CONNECTION."

3. Then scroll down to "CLICK HERE FOR EVIDENCE OF BUSH FAMILY CONPSIRACIES."

4. Scroll down from the antiwar demonstrator holding the "Peace" panties (seriously) and you'll arrive at an information trove, an archive of Bush family history they haven't yet buried in their GOOGLE purges.

Most interesting are the photos of a man appearing to be Poppy outside the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963. If I was him, I wouldn't want o remember where I was that day, either!

Good luck, Abe!
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pyro1392 Donating Member (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 11:24 PM
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4. I think it's interesting that the article claims that Bush
was running to the left of the Democrat. Does anyone know if this was really true? If it was, who would have been the better candidate to vote for? I know that back in the 60's many of the Southern Democrats were really quite conservative.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 12:03 AM
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6. Most insidious plan.
They first wedged in their district with "progressive" Republicans and then worked to hijack the GOP, stacking it with right-wingers after Nixon in 1968. There once were liberal Republicans like Rockefeller and Percy and Dirkson. The transformation was speeded and the co-optation completed with the rise of the neo-fascist religious right of the 1980s. Heil Bush!
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