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In reply to the discussion: Mike Gallagher Screwed GOP Leadership On the Way Out [View all]Hotler
(11,470 posts)23. Since you mentioned April 9. Day of remembrance coming up.
In Appomattox, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.
This would make a good yard sign.
4/9/1865, Never forget.
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Ken Buck would not have been the last house repub I would have thought would do this, but he would have been close. -nt
CrispyQ
Mar 25
#32
There's quitting, and then there's quitting via a company-wide email that is just a photocopy pic of a middle finger.
Comfortably_Numb
Mar 25
#7
I knew a guy who won a decent sized lottery & "retired" the whole states technicians.
oldsoftie
Mar 25
#38
Gallagher treated them with the same respect and decorum with which they treat everyone else.
DFW
Mar 25
#12
They weren't doing shit and weren't planning to do shit so it doesn't matter.
live love laugh
Mar 25
#26
Mike Gallagher carefully timed his departure so that his seat could not be replaced this cycle
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 26
#51