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Iowa

Cairycat

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1. Some of us can remember a time when

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 09:37 PM

Dec 11

Iowa Republicans were not batshit crazy. I miss those times.

and a side note: Congressman Leach taught a class at the University of Iowa after leaving Congress. My son was majoring in Political Science there then but didn't take his class.

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Jim Leach dies at age 82 [View all] rurallib Dec 11 OP

Some of us can remember a time when Cairycat Dec 11 #1

I remember liking him okay, as a Republican, before Republicans became unlikable Blappy Dec 16 #2

Leach not standing up to the excesses of Bush-Cheney pretty much ended rurallib Dec 17 #3

Sorry for your loss of a friend Blappy Dec 17 #4

Whoops - Leach wasn't exactly a friend - my phrasing was confusing rurallib Dec 17 #5