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What is your favorite political memory? Try to keep it state-focused if possible.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:03 am
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Seeing number coming in showing Paul Simon losing in Schaumburg to Chuck Percy by 55-45, and knowing that if Simon was polling 45% in Schaumburg, we were going to defeat the incumbent.
Comment by Skeeter Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:12 am
I have two:
1) Shaking hands with Dan Walker on his walking tour of Illinois. I remember he was incredibly tall and very nice.
2) Watching some regular Dem ward heelers in the 50th ward (Chicago) tearing down my candidate for state rep’s signs in a primary and jumping up and down on them while laughing. They were so fat, I wondered how they managed to get airborne.
Comment by Ferdy Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:12 am
Playing Jim Thompson as a Jim Bakker-style revivalist preacher (”Brother Jim’s Traveling Taxation Show”) in the 1987 Gridiron show. I was in an all-white tuxedo, holding a copy of the Blue Book as my Bible, with Thompson in the front row. The next day he called to express his appreciation for the show — I have never before or since felt more intimidated to take a phone call, but he was very nice about it.
Comment by Jim Leach Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:17 am
-”I like to thing of myself as a Jack Kennedy”
-”Sir, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. You are no Jack Kennedy.”
Comment by national level Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:36 am
Seeing Helen “Mother Goose” Sattherthwhaite lose her seat after redistricting.
Comment by Fire Ron Guenther Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:42 am
Tie between Michael Patrick Flanagan beating Dan Rostenkowski in 1994 as the GOP retook Congress and President Clinton’s sad puppy dog press conference the next day discussing the election results.
Comment by Ravenswood Right Winger Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:44 am
Being in the the Springfield Office the Night that Durbin Beat the Pants of off Salvi and seeing that the MJM Took the House back ending the Reign of terror of Lee Daniels
Comment by Spingfeild Solly Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:45 am
Pulling up behind a deputy sheriffs car on election day at 4:30am and asking the deputy sheriff to explain why he was pulling down the incumbent reps signs and throwing them in his squad car. His answer was the sheriff is running against the incumbent and we want him to win to get rid of him as Sheriff!
Comment by Campaigner Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:49 am
Watching Alderman Reilly pull off the upset of the year.
Comment by memories Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:50 am
Summer 2005, when President Bush visited Oswego. My best friend and I got press passes while working for the Daily Illini to cover the event. Regardless of what you think of the President or his policies, it was pretty neat to have press access to a presidential event as a college student.
Comment by Kiyoshi Martinez Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:51 am
My first visit to the House Gallery - then Representative Jesse White racing across the House Chamber to get to his button for a roll call. When he saw he wasn’t going to make it on time, he yelled out to his seatmate for all to hear - “vote me yes - this is a money bill for the Med Society”
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:03 am
Asking a question during a political debate (during Dan Walker’s bid) at Wabash Valley College and having the speakers debate it for quite some time.
Comment by Pat collins Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:05 am
When House Members kept car antennas at their desk to punch the voting buttons of those around them who were absent.
Comment by Gathers No Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:12 am
Having a letter to the editor published in the Trib in 1996 slamming them for endorsing Kustra in the US Senate Primary and then turning around and endorsing Salvi in the General. Thank God Durbin won.
Comment by St. Nick Name Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:15 am
A sunny weekday afternoon in Chicago. The Gov is having his afternoon jog before returning home for his nap. Up pulls the black Surburban. The federal agent is wearing a jogging suit as he runs along side and personally delivers the indictment. A truly beautiful day.
Comment by Soon Very Soon Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:17 am
Come on - any story regarding “Senator” Marovitz.
Comment by babs Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:17 am
Edgar ’s sos police removing the chained ERA supporters from the State Capitol.
Comment by wow Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:19 am
Sorry, I thinking weirdest not best. I will have to ponder that a bit more.
Comment by babs Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:20 am
I have many great memories but one of my favorites was hearing that Rosemary Mulligan defeated Penny Pullen in the 1992 primary. I was laughing so hard I almost had to pull my car off the road.
Comment by politicaljunkie Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:34 am
Glenn Poshard’s 1998 Gubernatorial primary victory.
Comment by Old Shepherd Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:34 am
in 1979/1980 i was a college intern to the reagan campaign. we were in a small, four-seat prop plane flying to the next appearance when the plane dropped about 5000 feet. the governor reached over, put his hand on my leg and said, “easy, fellor.” i don’t know if he had supreme confidence or just wanted to reassure the scared person next to him, but i’d have fought through hell for him after that. a close second, though, would be the president telling me i could wear my flip-flops (with a suit, of course) to the white house!
Comment by bored now Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:40 am
meeting paul simon on the steps of the cap in january 1999.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:54 am
When I asked Paul Simon whether he was a Carpetbagger in the early ’70s in a government class at John A. Logan College. He smiled, a big smile and said, “Now that I think about it, yes I would be down here, wouldn’t I?”
Comment by If It Walks Like a Duck.... Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:13 pm
Two for the price of one.
1. State related. Watching my dad shake Jim Thompson’s hand at a local 4th of July parade and turning to me and saying “I just told that SOB that I didn’t vote for him and never will.”
2. City related. Harold Washington defeating Bernie Epton in 1983. One of my neighbors was handing out buttons for Epton. The buttons said nothing. They were blank. They were “white”. The next day I asked my “neighbor” if he had any buttons left. He wanted to hit me and cry at the same time. He soon moved. He was the worst neighbor we ever had. Thank you Mayor Washington.
Comment by irishpirate Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:13 pm
harold washington’s primary night victory party in ‘83. i still get chills.
Comment by cool hand c-dub Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:27 pm
I remembering learning a lesson at someone elses expense. I was lobbying for retired & active teachers several years back and we had a bill asking for 122M + for pension benefits etc. Many groups were involved. We met with Carter and an amount of 56M was agreed upon. The day it is suppose to get out of committee, a volunteer from another group involved told Pate that the groups had enough votes to get the entire 122M+ and told him off so to speak. That bill never was called for a vote that year. That was when i first realized the power of the leaders. My boss at the time knew what happened immediately and explained it to me. The GA ran much better back in those days, as did the entire state.
Comment by SpfldPolitico Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:29 pm
Lunch with Secretary of State Paul Powell and a Senator at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield in the 1960s. The waitress had a question about her son’s driver’s license renewal form. “Sit down, honey”, Powell drawled, and he personally spent 20 minutes with the waitress helping her fill out the form. Nicest guy in the world, but “he could smell the meat a’cookin” when it came to cash.
Comment by Legaleagle Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:38 pm
My favorite is when Hartke was presiding and covered up the name board with a plate of Poe’s chicken, whether intentional or not, and couldn’t see you wanted to speak. Shirley Jones got a little peeved and said something to the fact that if he didn’t move that plate of chicken and recognize her she was gonna come down there and whoop his ass.
Comment by Memories Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:46 pm
Second memory: January 1961, opening session. GOP controlled the State House 89-88, but the Chicago machine had persuaded 5 GOP members from Dem Chicago districts to stay home, so minority Dems could elect the Speaker! Outgoing Secretary of State Charles Carpentier, a Repub, gaveled the opening session to order per the State Constitution, then immediately granted a voice vote to recess, and all the Repubs walked out and went home! Now there was no quorum, just 88 Dems present, so their gambit was frustrated. They nevertheless elected a rump Speaker, and the matter went to the courts. Things haven’t changed, have they?
Comment by Legaleagle Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:47 pm
Election nights at the Coles County courthouse and various candidate’s headquarters (esp. with the old 3-member districts), watching the returns written up on a chalkboard, drinking Jim Beam.
Comment by steve schnorf Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:49 pm
Well, Steve, at least you still drink the Beam.
Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:50 pm
The day Capitol Fax Blog launched.
Comment by The Blogger Formerly Known As Anonymous Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 12:53 pm
It was when Paul Simon (politician) appeared on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon (singer)
Comment by Ghost Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:06 pm
The deflated basketball that was delivered to Ray Page the day after he was defeated.
Comment by Ole Prof Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:08 pm
Barack winning against the machine was sweet.
Comment by WWDMD Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:27 pm
Jim Thompson and I share the same birthday and is the same age as my dad. He was visiting my university on that very day and I saw him in one of the cafeterias on campus. So I bought him some cake and delivered it singing, “Happy Birthday to us!” He is a great guy and was so flattered. We had lunch with Paula Wolff, then one of Thompson’s aides, and after I was through singing to him, I said, “I always wanted to me someone I admired for so long.” At that, Paula popped up and shook my hand and said with a smile, “Thanks!”
Two very nice people!
Comment by VanillaMan Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:28 pm
Watching Jim Thompson prowl the floor of the House on June 30, 1988, searching for and finding the votes needed to pass the White Sox stadium bill and keep the Sox from leaving for Florida.
Comment by ChuckAmuck Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:29 pm
Bill Black hazing Chuck Jefferson on his first bill, about curbing violent dogs. I don’t remember the exact quote, but after an impassioned speech, Black said something to the effect of: “You can redistrict me into the City of Chicago, but quit picking on my dog! Get up, get up on your hind legs! Let me hear you howl!” There were quite a few howls coming from the GOP side that you could even hear over the squawk box. Classic.
Comment by Dan Vock Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:48 pm
Shaking hands with Ronald Reagan while he was campaigning with John Hoellen in Lincoln Square during 1980.
Comment by Honest Abe Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:02 pm
I was doing some door-to-door canvassing in early 1991 - voter registration and petition gathering in Lincoln Park/Chicago,when much to my surprise, Mike Royko opens the door at a house on Racine. He invited me in and I registered him to vote - we had a pleasant
conversation - he also subsequently signed a candidate petition for me. He was very polite. I remember the Board of Elections Supervisor doing a double take when I turned in the registration.
Subsequently, on the day after the April mayoral election, he wrote a column titled “Snoring Through a Boring Election.” I became the basis for a short caricature of the modern precinct captain and a boring election. He described me as a polite preppy wearing a “tweed coat and penny loafers”. He complained that I wasn’t “wearing a pinky ring, didn’t have any broken veins in my nose, and thatI didn’t offer him any cash.” The column wasn’t about me it’s theme was the boring election when not much anything interesting happened compared to the good old days.
Comment by Captain America Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:17 pm
Meeting Gerald Ford in the old downtown Sheraton in Joliet in 1976 when I was 10 years old - what a thrill to meet the president. Also, walking into Blagojevich HQ in on election night with our precint vote tape in 1996 and seeing a laughing Ald. Dick Mell howling with glee and yelling, “we’re gonna get 70%!’ during Rod’s defeat of Michael Patrick Flanagan.
Comment by paddyrollingstone Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:18 pm
The Hat + the Pistol.
Blago on the Daily show.
Comment by Papa Legba Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:25 pm
Attending a 2002 GOP rally led by President Bush. It was my first actual political rally and, I have been bitten by the political bug ever since.
Comment by Scoot Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:35 pm
IN 1960,HEARING ON TV THAT THE SECRET SERVICE HAD ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION WHERE JFK WAITED FOR THE ELECTION RESULTS BECAUSE HE WAS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT.
Comment by JIMLENTIM Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:36 pm
Accuracy compels me to amend my description of the Royko encounter to mid-to-late Fall of 1990. It would have been too late to gather petitions
for the 1991 elections in January. I’m fairly certain that the column appeared after the April election rather than Febraury election. One of his other complaints was that an Aldermanic candidate named Piech was giving away peaches instead of throwing bombs. Anyway, I became a “legend in my own mind” for about 15 seconds after this Royko column appeared.
I thank Rich for requiring me to recall this old memory. I hadn’t thought about this episode for a long time and didn’t remember it when initially pondering the question. Definitely an ‘oldie but goodie!”
Comment by Captain America Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:41 pm
- ChuckAmuck - Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 1:29 pm:
Watching Jim Thompson prowl the floor of the House on June 30, 1988, searching for and finding the votes needed to pass the White Sox stadium bill and keep the Sox from leaving for Florida.
Amazing how things are different than they are now. It’s hard to imagine this governor walking floor of the House and engaging legislators.
Comment by Fan of the Game Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 2:45 pm
I have three….
Watching Alan J. Dixon tell a crowd of disappointed campaign workers that he had lost - but what a speach where he said “…and to you Carol Mosley Braun, may you drink of the cup and drink of it fully as I have - to have had the pleasure to serve the people of Illinois for decades…” A class act to the end.
To have been with Dawn Clark Netsch - and to see her stand up to Luis Guiterez at an IVI/IPO event when he endorsed Phelan…He looked scared..seriously.
To have shook hands with President Clinton and to be thanked by him at the White House after we won re-election in 1996 - No better feeling to have helped him win re-election. It was even better to be only 10 feet away from Monica Lewinski and not be so important to be called in by the Clinton Haters who impeached him!!!
Comment by Taylor Street Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 3:14 pm
Paul Powell’s confidant emptying shoe boxes to put money in from Powell’s apartment, placing it in the trunk of his double parked car and having it towed. Those who knew Paul Powell knew of his delight of having many spit-polished shoes available. Good thing, aye! And, the money had not yet been counted.
Comment by Justice Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 3:22 pm
Best local memory: election nights in a smoke-filled Champaign County Courthouse with those chalkboards full of tabulations. (No Jim Beam, though.)
Best state memory: 1986 primary-Calling back home from Disney World (on a phone shaped like Goofy) to learn that two LaRouchies had knocked off the regular Dem nominees for Lite Gov and Secretary of State.
Best overall memory-President Ford’s 1976 visit to Champaign County, including a front to back tour of Air Force One conducted by the late Cong. Ed Madigan.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 3:26 pm
One of my faves was when I first learned Glenn Poshard was supported by ABATE, which sparked the informal slogan, “Glenn Poshard: Right to Life; Live to Ride”
Comment by ZC Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 3:30 pm
Oddly enough, this is my favorite political memory… and it is about Judy Baar Topinka… and it is why I love her, and some hate her… It was Toulon, IL… Old Settler’s Day parade. Judy was running for her first term as state treasurer (yeah, an unknown visiting an unknown place). She (and my family) walked in the parade. On the way back to the high school, Judy decided that it was time for a cig. She snuck behind a tree and within 15 seconds that cigarette was reduced to nothing but ash in the wind. It truly the fastest cigarette ever smoked. I have never met a politican like her (as in, one that comes off as a real person… and no, I have never met Bill Clinton) and I doubt there will be many more like her.
Comment by Lovie's Leather Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 3:33 pm
The time my friends and I were momentarily detained by the Secret Service on the lawn of the Statehouse while waiting for the president to show up. One friend had an afro out to here and was carrying a brown paper bag, hence the cause for suspicion, I guess. We were in the 9th grade and Nixon was president. Heady times those were.
Comment by Shadoobie Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 3:37 pm
Hey Rick -
How about a blog on politicians and their smoking habits…following up on Lovie’s comments - politicians who are real people (Netsch; Denny Jacobs and JBT) always have great stories…Just an idea..
Comment by Taylor Street Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 4:07 pm
Okay — sorry RICH…
Comment by Taylor Street Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 4:07 pm
Has to be Former Congressman Mel Reynold’s famous quote caught on tape before being indicted “Two girls! Did You say two girls! man, I think I think I just won the Lotto!”
Comment by pickles!! Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 4:13 pm
Oh, i almost forgot! The late Mayor Harold Washington, at the victory celebratin of the Bears 1986 super Bowl victory, When he announces ’should we give em’ the finger? Should we give Boston the finger? We’re #1″ I was like 12 years old and thopugh he was going to give the universal finger sigh, bun instead held up his index finger instead of the middle one. Classic Harold
Comment by pickles!! Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 4:21 pm
Several have to do with working on my first political campaign for the Illinois House Democrats — for State Rep. Bob DeJaegher.
Beneath his gruff exterior he had a big heart.
He passed away this morning in the Quad Cities.
May he rest in peace.
Comment by Porter McNeil Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 4:26 pm
Sitting in a meeting in Sen. Stan Weaver’s office to discuss why a bill was being held in rules comm. A person questioned Stan, because he couldn’t understand how one person (a friend of Pate) from Jacksonville could keep a bill from being voted on in the Senate.
Stan’s response, “Happens everyday.”
Comment by True Comparison Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 4:28 pm
I was six when I accompanied my grandparents to Springpatch for Ogilvie’s inauguration. The things I remember most were the constant stream of maroon and red GM&O passenger trains on the railroad paralleling US 66 and getting bit by a cat in a fleabag motel north of Springfield. I do remember shaking some suit’s hand, but I couldn’t tell you if it was Ogilvie or not.
Also, giving John Anderson a ride to O’Hare in my clapped-out ex ISP Gran Fury when his limo didn’t show up – I was a press photog at the time ca. 1982.
Comment by Ken in Aurora Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 5:28 pm
In the 1992 primary after working for her downstate campaign in McLean County, learning that Carol Moseley-Braun had pulled off an “impossible” upset and beaten both Sen. Alan Dixon (who had never lost an election in 40 years of politics) and Al Hofeld after being massively outspent by both of them.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 5:47 pm
January, 1975: Rep. Clyde Choate, on one knee at the desk of his close friend Rep. Ted Lechowicz from Chicago, and telling a weeping Lechowicz that he (Lechowicz) must do what Mayor Daley (the real Mayor Daley) has requested of his Chicago Democratic legislators and switch his vote for speaker from Choate to Rep. Bill Redmond. Lechowicz continued to vote for Choate for several more of the 96 or 98 ballots it took to elect Redmond. When he stood to change his vote from Choate to Redmond, the big, lumbering Lechowicz could barely get the words out. I was twenty-three years old.
Comment by RR Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 6:06 pm
Being in the room with Chuck Pangel on election night when he knocked off Ed McBroom in 1982. I was sixteen and knew at that moment what I’d spend the rest of my life doing. Well, so far at least.
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 7:29 pm
As always suspected, and now confirmed, Capitol Fax readers and commenters are a super cool bunch of marginals (myself) and heavy hitters. I’m in awe. Wow!
Comment by Shadoobie Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 7:43 pm
Being at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in 1986. The Illinois delegation was staying at the Oakland Hyatt and everyone staying there received a personal invitation from Mayor Harold Washington on official Chicago city letterhead under their door late one night inviting them to an early morning breakfast at the Mayors suite the following day. While a hundred or so people lined up outside his suite the next morning, Harold opened his door to a knock. Standing there in his robe and pajama’s, Harold had no idea what breakfast they were there for. Seems Fast Eddie had pulled a fast one. Thus the 60 minutes segment that night “I’ll give you a mouth full of somethin’ you dont want”. priceless.
Comment by proudstatecopper Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 8:14 pm
Meeting 1980 presidential candidate George Bush roaming the halls of the Capitol looking for State GOP support.
Sen. Knuppel yelling, “Langhorne Bond” at midnight.
Watching the sunrise upon leaving the Mansion after session party.
…
Comment by Norseman Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 8:45 pm
My mother and I shaking hands with Gerald Ford in 1975 at a visit he made to Wichita, Kansas when I was 11. I said to Mom, “You just shook hands with a Republican!” Why this comment?: She grew up in one of the few Democratic families in Kansas and at age 7, she and her 8-year-old sister refused to shake hands with favorite son presidential candidate Alf Landon when introduced to him in 1936, stating “We’re Democrats!” Sorry the state this was related to is Kansas, not Illinois.
Comment by 32nd Ward Roscoe Village Resident Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 9:22 pm
I was only 16 and just watching it on television, but when Flanagan beat Rosty, that was pretty amazing.
Other highlights were my first political rally, which was also in 1994, featuring Jim Edgar and most of the statewide ticket, and then seeing Bob Dole in 1996 and Dick Cheney in 2000.
Comment by Establishment Republican Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 9:49 pm
This is pretty recent, so maybe that is why it is my favorite….But in February we packed up the family to go to Springfield for the Obama announcement. We rolled in at about 9pm the night before, checked in to the Abe, the kids were half-asleep, and we had the bags and stroller, and were waiting for the elevator to go up to the room. The elevator door dings, and guess who is getting off it with 5 or 6 of his closest staffers? right. So we say hi, he comes and talks to us, meets the kids, etc. We had met Obama before at campaign rallies, town hall meetings, etc., but it is different when there are 15000 people, and national news media there to see this guy, and you get the chance to say hi.
But it happened so fast, and was so unexpected, I didn’t get to ask him what I really wanted to know at that time: First, when responding to the Biden “articulate” line, why didn’t he name Alan Keyes as one of the previous African American presidential candidates who were “clean and articluate.” And then, I also wanted to ask him if the announcement he was making the next day was that he was running for president, or that he wasn’t, because people would have been pretty bummed if he wasn’t. (And that was like the only night that joke would have been funny).
Comment by winco Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 9:59 pm
Michael Madigan being carried by Jimmy Taylor and Taylor Pouncey off the podium to the safety of his office after illegally gaveling the House to adjournment for the session. This was while Bill Redmond was Speaker and happened right after State Rep. Doug Kane, a Democrat, torn up his Rule Book and throw the remains at Madigan. Lots of screaming on both sides, of course.
Comment by Cal Skinner Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 10:42 pm
The race between Babe Woodyard and Larry Stuffle when redistricting put the two incumbents into the same district. Woodyard’s very loud, heavily populated celebration was at a farm near Chrisman, if memory serves; Stuffle, some hours later, was all alone in a union club in downtown Danville.
Comment by Mr. Twain Wednesday, Jun 13, 07 @ 11:37 pm
Mike Tristano’s indictment and conviction. May his longtime friend, patron, and alter ego follow soon.
Comment by Lincoln Lounger Thursday, Jun 14, 07 @ 3:09 am
1968 Chicago Democratic Convention. I especially enjoyed the cleansing of protesters with fire hoses.
Comment by Patriot Thursday, Jun 14, 07 @ 7:16 am
1985 on the House floor, having just listened to Jesse Jackson give a speech, he walked by and kissed this high schoolers girlfriend on the cheek. She was very excited. We didn’t last the semester.
Comment by Highland Online Thursday, Jun 14, 07 @ 1:38 pm