Ivins on Richards..... a MUST read!

[liberalitch]

Funny, thoughtful and makes us feel her loss all the worse!!!!
Take this great story:

....At a long-ago political do at Scholz Garten in Austin, everybody who was anybody was there meetin’ and greetin’ at a furious pace. A group of us got the tired feet and went to lean our butts against a table at the back wall of the bar. Perched like birds in a row were Bob Bullock, then state comptroller, moi, Charles Miles, the head of Bullock’s personnel department, and Ms. Ann Richards. Bullock, 20 years in Texas politics, knew every sorry, no good sumbitch in the entire state. Some old racist judge from East Texas came up to him, ‘Bob, my boy, how are you?”

Bullock said, “Judge, I’d like you to meet my friends: This is Molly Ivins with the Texas Observer.”

The judge peered up at me and said, “How yew, little lady?”

Bullock, “And this is Charles Miles, the head of my personnel department.” Miles, who is black, stuck out his hand, and the judge got an expression on his face as though he had just stepped into a fresh cowpie. He reached out and touched Charlie’s palm with one finger, while turning eagerly to the pretty, blonde, blue-eyed Ann Richards. “And who is this lovely lady?”

Ann beamed and replied, “I am Mrs. Miles....”

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0915-29.htm

[pepperbear]

1. thanks for posting! k and r. n/t

[aquart]

2. Oh! Wonderful. Thank you!

[castiron]

3. thanks. i forwarded the article to my family and lamented

I am not living in Texas during HER reign.

[havocmom]

4. An American treasure on another American treasure.

No one could do justice to Richards better than Ivins. Great stuff. Thanks for the link.

[wellstone dem]

5. k and r nt

[rhiannon55]

6. Yay Ann Richards

We've lost a national treasure

[bigbrother05]

7. I've got an Ann story to share

Was at a luncheon in east Texas in 94, Ann was there along with Ross Perot.
I had taken my son with me, his 18th birthday, Nov 3rd always at election time.
After lunch we were all outside and Ann was speaking to the crowd, I passed her a note,
asking her to wish my son Happy Birthday, she grabbed him out of the crowd, put her arm around him,
and asked what he was going to do on this day, he was hesitant, and she yelled
GO VOTE.

[UTUSN]

8. With her goes one version of my Democratic ideal person n/t

[applegrove]

9. Tks n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

10. What a terrific lady she was.

She will be missed terribly.

So Chimpo dismantled the rehab program that Ann created. No surprise there. :mad:

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Thank yew, liberalitch!

[terrya]

12. Nice story. You know, I think Governor Richards would have liked DU

I know the feeling would have been mutual. :-)

What a terrific, classy lady Ann Richards was.

[AgadorSparticus]

13. What an amazing woman. I agree with the poster above, she is a

national treasure!

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Ditto.

[GETPLANING]

15. Ann Richards was a Class Act

RIP Ann, you have earned it.

[XOKCowboy]

16. Thanks for the link. Kicking.

Y'all need to read Molly's column. I'd sure loved to have been on that camping trip.

[bobbieinok]

17. thanks......was waiting for this