Washington state Gov election in ‘04 votes miraculously turned up in King County....
The preachers in LBJ’s district began to preach against him. In response, LBJ got legislation passed in 1954 making political speech in churches a violation of the income tax laws. Just a bit of history — let’s call it how your freedoms were destroyed “Introduction.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765344/posts
According to wikipedia, Justice Black didn’t make the final call - it gets even better:
“Justice Hugo L. Black declared that the matter would rest with the 59-member Democratic State Central Committee. That panel by a 29-28 vote sustained Johnson’s margin of victory. The tie-breaking vote was cast by the Temple publisher Frank W. Mayborn (1903-1987), who at the urging of Johnson’s then campaign manager, John B. Connally, rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee, to break an otherwise 28-28 tie.”
This is Clinton-type politics, maybe she can pull it out of her pantsuit yet...
Ever after, he was known as “Landslide Lyndon”.
Yeah, not only did 202 dead people show up to vote, they came in alphabetical order.
I have no doubt that such chicanery is in Hillary’s play book. However, even CBS is going to have a hard time explaining to the African American population why the Hillabeast stole an almost sure election from the 1st black president. (’Cuz I’m sure not voting for McKennedy...and this seems to be the consensus of most of my conservative friends.)
Another interesting tidbit, is that in 1942 LBJ had had a Senate seat stolen from him by Pappy O’Daniel. I guess in the six years that followed, LBJ vowed to be the stealer rather than the stealee....and the rest is history.
Interesting that he became VP in ‘60 because JFK and his mob buddies stole the election in Illinois.
Interesting career, LBJ, to say the least.