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Old 11-09-2006, 11:56 AM   #11 (permalink)
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You are probably thinking of the original mayor Daly in Chicago.
Well, the current (and his Papa) spell it Daley....but it wasn't them

It was His Honerable Thomas Dyer (15th Mayor of Chicago, 1856-1857) who this was said ABOUT...

He was a bit of a corupt politian (go fig) and hired goons to wander the town to drag people in to vote for him.

The "Democratic Machine" was born.
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Guess every locale has it's shady politico. In Texas it was the Duke of Duvall. Famous for getting names off of tombstones and voting for Democrats.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/.../PP/fpa36.html
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Old 11-09-2006, 01:39 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Well, the current (and his Papa) spell it Daley....but it wasn't them

It was His Honerable Thomas Dyer (15th Mayor of Chicago, 1856-1857) who this was said ABOUT...

He was a bit of a corupt politian (go fig) and hired goons to wander the town to drag people in to vote for him.

The "Democratic Machine" was born.

Dyer, yes that's who I was thinking of.
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Old 11-09-2006, 10:54 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Ok norteltx.. is that a dog swimming or... Looks like the Republicans to me

Yeah your new... your gonna get picked on
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I think in many cases that I would of voted for a dead person rather than some of the options that I had yesterday.....
Unfortunately that may have been the rule rather than the exception in most areas.
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Ok norteltx.. is that a dog swimming or... Looks like the Republicans to me

Yeah your new... your gonna get picked on

It's a pic of a Lab trudging through the snow in the blizzard that hit Colorado a couple of weeks ago. Could be a Republican cause he is turning left but unlike the others he has his head above the surface.
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