🚀 go-pugleaf

tom spillman wrote:
> 
> Alan S wrote:
> > "Mike Smith" <mws@wt.net> babbled in message
> > news:rknte2tu4t9c7a60nhehd6r8t65sr3i2oa@4ax.com...
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>The election wasn't rigged. It is that simple. In 2000 Algore, Jr.
> >>attempted an LBJ scheme and found out he was not as slick as LBJ.
> >>IOW, he couldn't pull it off.
> >>
> >
> > Hey Mikey! Yes, you there in the back of the class ... stop eating paste,
> > and see if you can  pay attention for a second here, I have a question for
> > you ... Slick? Pull it off? Does that mean you support the conspiracy theory
> > that LBJ was an integral part in the Kennedy assasination?
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>Mike Smith
> >
> >
> >
> I hesitate to respond for Mike, but I interpreted his remarks as
> applying to LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senator.  See:
> 
>         "In 1948, Johnson again ran for the Senate and won. This election was
> highly controversial: a three-way Democratic Party primary left Johnson
> in a run-off with former Governor Coke Stevenson. Stevenson was a
> popular former governor, while Johnson was hindered during the campaign
> because of an illness caused by a kidney stone. In an effort to catch
> Stevenson, Johnson was able to finance a personal helicopter dubbed "The
> Flying Windmill". He was able to draw crowds around the state. Because
> of Johnson's fundraising ability, he was able to saturate the state with
> his campaign messages. Johnson was also able to persuade the
> conservative elements of Texas society to side with him instead of
> Stevenson by making a speech that criticized labor unions in general,
> thus depriving Stevenson of badly needed funds. Johnson campaigned very
> hard and won by only 87 votes. Stevenson contested the vote count. There
> were allegations that Johnson's campaign manager, John Connally, was
> connected with 202 ballots in Duval County that had curiously been cast
> in alphabetical order. [3]. In Robert A. Caro's 1989 book Means of
> Ascent, he argued that Johnson had rigged the election not only there
> but also at least 10,000 ballots in Bexar County alone."
> 
> This is from:
> 
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson
>


I've been a resident for just over fifteen years and almost without
exception, Texans that I have met and worked with can relate to LBJ
being one of the biggest crooks in Texas history.

JT