RIP Ann Richards
 

best governor ever in the great nation of Texas

sure better than that dumbfuck you got afterwards!

damn straight

I didn't know anything about Richards, until now that I read about her in the Wiki.
It sounds like she did a pretty good job while she was governor, among other things. Quite a good humor too.

Richards's keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention put her in the national spotlight when she uttered the famous line, about the wealthy, then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, "Poor George, he can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

she was on king of the hill once. hank mooned her from a glass elevator.

Ann Richards on George Bush, Sr.:
Poor George, he can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

Ann Richards on George W. Bush, Jr.:
It's like he was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.

Her voice appears (as herself) in the King of the Hill episode "Hank and the Great Glass Elevator."

her famous dnc keynote address from '88...
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...rds1988dnc.htm

Oh yeah I remember that episode.

Governor Richards was an amazing woman. She was candid about everything in her life. She held a 63% aprooval rating (a HUGE amount for apolitician) as governor of Texas and was defeated bu Dubya when they ran a smear campaign accusing her of being a lesbian and hiding it, which of course drew the ire of all the redneck fundamentalist assholes in texas, who could care less to substantiate any claim, much less be open minded about such things.

This is an excerpt from a speech she gave at teh democratic national convention. She told it like it was.

"This Republican administration treats us as if we were pieces of a puzzle that can't fit together.

They've tried to put us into compartments and separate us from each other.

Their political theory is, "divide and conquer."

They've suggested time and time again that what is of interest to one group of Americans is not of interest to anyone else. We've been isolated. We've been lumped into that sad phraseology called "special interests."

They've told farmers that they were selfish, that they would drive up food prices if they asked the government to intervene on behalf of the family farm, and we watched farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

They told working mothers it's all their fault that families are falling apart - because they had to go to work to keep their kids in jeans, tennis shoes and college. And they're wrong.

They told American labor they were trying to ruin free enterprise by asking for 60 days' notice of plant closings, and they're wrong.

And they told the auto industry, and the steel industry, and the timber industry, and the oil industry, companies being threatened by foreign products flooding this country, that you're protectionist if you think the government should enforce our trade laws. And they're wrong.

When they belittle us for demanding clean air and clean water, for trying to save the oceans or the ozone layer, that's wrong.

No wonder we feel isolated. And confused. We want answers and their answer is that something is wrong with you.

Well, nothing's wrong with you. Nothing's wrong with you that you can't fix in November.

We've been told - we've been told that the interests of the South and the Southwest are not the same interests as the North and the Northeast.

They pit one group against the other. They've divided this country. And in our isolation we think government isn't going to help us, and that we're alone in our feelings. We feel forgotten.

Well, the fact is that we are not an isolated piece of their puzzle.

We are one nation. We are the United States of America!"

rip

Don't be a hypocrite. You're either with us, or you're against us.

i am showing respect for a fellow texan
no matter what her political beliefs were while she was alive

she was a texan, and thats what matters

I'm sure she would have thought otherwise.

you're not even american, so shut up.



shouldnt you be pedaling heroin or some shit?

Your presidents decisions affect us all, you know.

please face the fact that it will never get any better than it is now and go along on your merry way.

Get a life Tokolosh!

Like anyone has anything to do with where they are born...
There are a whole lot of Minnesotans I would shed no tears for.

Shush pork.

die.

Crypto,do you drink orange juice?