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To: DaveLoneRanger

2 posted on 04/20/2007 4:55:04 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)

To: DaveLoneRanger; Admin Moderator

Sorry for the duplicate. I found it under a different title.

Admin Mod, pull this post if you feel the need. Thanks.

3 posted on 04/20/2007 4:58:28 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)

I just LOVE this story to pieces.

GO VENUS! We need more women like her!

11 posted on 04/20/2007 5:31:11 PM PDT by Kieri (Midwest Snark Claw & Feather Club Founder)

Wow! This lady is something else. Here’s some more of her in the press from 1999:

“Former Miss America Venus Ramey is taking on the U.S. government over its tobacco policy.

Acting as her own lawyer and seeking $300 billion in damages, Ramey filed a federal lawsuit last Friday against the U.S. Justice Department.

Ramey, who was Miss America 1944, is now 74 and living on a farm north of Eubank. She wants to save the tobacco industry from possible extinction and get farmers back on their feet. . . Ramey, who represented the District of Columbia in the Miss America pageant, said her family has grown tobacco for 350 years and she has been a tobacco farmer for 50 years. . . The lawsuit accuses the government and President Clinton of trying ``to destroy a successful, lucrative American industry.’’

http://www.tobacco.org/articles/lawsuit/ramey/

14 posted on 04/20/2007 5:39:07 PM PDT by American72 (Sick of Democrats)

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