Please, Please, Please, run for the House THIS TERM! It’s true you might be downed by a sniper’s bullet, but it sounds to me like you are smart enough to avoid that also.
Then after a couple of succussful terms, try for President. Then if you make that, turn off political ads on TV. Make it so all canidates for public office have to appear on stage TOGETHER! ALL THE TIME! THEY COULD ACTUALLY DEBATE EACH OTHER!
WITHOUT HIDDEN MICROPHONES!
Make the president report to the House and Senate and explain his actions ONCE A MONTH! Yes! Democracy will rein again in this country!
Let’s see I think JFK tried that, and RFK, and even MLK. Weren’t there a couple of members of the House or Senate that died in light aircraft?
By Michael I. Niman, AlterNet. Posted October 28, 2002.
Wellstone now joins the ranks of other American politicians who died in small plane crashes. Another recent victim was Missouri’s former Democratic governor, Mel Carnahan, who lost his life in 2000, three weeks before Election Day, during his Senatorial race against John Ashcroft. Carnahan went on to become the first dead man to win a Senatorial race, humiliating and defeating the unpopular Ashcroft posthumously. Ashcroft, despite his unpopularity, went on to be appointed Attorney General by George W. Bush. Investigators determined that Carnahan’s plane went down due to "poor visibility."
Carnahan was the second Missouri politician to die in a small plane crash. The first was Democratic Representative Jerry Litton, whose plane crashed the night he won the Democratic nomination for senate in 1976. His Republican opponent ultimately captured the seat from his successor in November.
While an article in the New York Times on Saturday pointed out the danger politicians face due to their heavy air travel schedules, the death of a senator or member of Congress is still relatively rare, with only one other sitting U.S. Senator, liberal Republican John Heinz, dying in a plane crash since World War II. Heinz, who entered office as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, later emerged as a strong proponent of health care, social services, public transportation and the environment. He also urged reconciliation with Cuba. He died when the landing gear on his small plane failed to function, and a helicopter dispatched to survey the problem crashed into his plane.
One former senator, John Tower, also died in a small plane crash. Tower was best known as the chair of the Tower Commission, which investigated the Reagan/Bush era Iran/Contra scandal.
Another member of a prominent government commission who died in a small plane crash was former Democratic representative and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. Boggs was best known as one of the seven members of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he killed the president. Boggs, it turns out, had "strong doubts" that Oswald acted alone, but went along with the commission findings. Later, in 1971 and 1972, he went public with his doubts. He was presumed dead after the small plane carrying him and Democratic Representative Nicholas Begich disappeared in 1972.
On second thought maybe just a nice documentary on people that mysteriously die like Karen Silkwood.
Bill, Bill, Bill;
Please, Please, Please, run for the House THIS TERM! It’s true you might be downed by a sniper’s bullet, but it sounds to me like you are smart enough to avoid that also.
Then after a couple of succussful terms, try for President. Then if you make that, turn off political ads on TV. Make it so all canidates for public office have to appear on stage TOGETHER! ALL THE TIME! THEY COULD ACTUALLY DEBATE EACH OTHER!
WITHOUT HIDDEN MICROPHONES!
Make the president report to the House and Senate and explain his actions ONCE A MONTH! Yes! Democracy will rein again in this country!
Let’s see I think JFK tried that, and RFK, and even MLK. Weren’t there a couple of members of the House or Senate that died in light aircraft?
There is a reason why America is SO conservative.
And we both know why.
http://www.alternet.org/story/14399/
Except from
Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?
By Michael I. Niman, AlterNet. Posted October 28, 2002.
Wellstone now joins the ranks of other American politicians who died in small plane crashes. Another recent victim was Missouri’s former Democratic governor, Mel Carnahan, who lost his life in 2000, three weeks before Election Day, during his Senatorial race against John Ashcroft. Carnahan went on to become the first dead man to win a Senatorial race, humiliating and defeating the unpopular Ashcroft posthumously. Ashcroft, despite his unpopularity, went on to be appointed Attorney General by George W. Bush. Investigators determined that Carnahan’s plane went down due to "poor visibility."
Carnahan was the second Missouri politician to die in a small plane crash. The first was Democratic Representative Jerry Litton, whose plane crashed the night he won the Democratic nomination for senate in 1976. His Republican opponent ultimately captured the seat from his successor in November.
While an article in the New York Times on Saturday pointed out the danger politicians face due to their heavy air travel schedules, the death of a senator or member of Congress is still relatively rare, with only one other sitting U.S. Senator, liberal Republican John Heinz, dying in a plane crash since World War II. Heinz, who entered office as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, later emerged as a strong proponent of health care, social services, public transportation and the environment. He also urged reconciliation with Cuba. He died when the landing gear on his small plane failed to function, and a helicopter dispatched to survey the problem crashed into his plane.
One former senator, John Tower, also died in a small plane crash. Tower was best known as the chair of the Tower Commission, which investigated the Reagan/Bush era Iran/Contra scandal.
Another member of a prominent government commission who died in a small plane crash was former Democratic representative and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. Boggs was best known as one of the seven members of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he killed the president. Boggs, it turns out, had "strong doubts" that Oswald acted alone, but went along with the commission findings. Later, in 1971 and 1972, he went public with his doubts. He was presumed dead after the small plane carrying him and Democratic Representative Nicholas Begich disappeared in 1972.
On second thought maybe just a nice documentary on people that mysteriously die like Karen Silkwood.