This was him posing as an "undercover" hobo during the depression. He actually rode the rails so that he could see what was really going on in the camps. Some of the other hoboes were suspicious...he was too well fed.
Posted on 10/15/2008 12:14:57 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As John McCain prepares for the final presidential debate Wednesday night, the San Antonio Mavericks — note the capital M — wish he would quit flinging their name around.
.....Maverick’s descendants continued his legacy of public service and bucking conventional wisdom. His grandson, Maury Maverick, was a U.S. congressman who returned to San Antonio to serve one term as a mayor and took pride in getting the River Walk built and La Villita restored.
His political career ended when he allowed members of the Communist Party, including Emma Tenayuca, a labor leader who advocated for pecan shellers, to meet at Municipal Auditorium. A lynch mob gathered outside the meeting and hanged Maverick in effigy.
....Fontaine Maverick, an Austin bookkeeper and great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Augustus Maverick, started a Web site — www.realoriginalmaverick.com — about a month ago as a way to respond to McCain’s use of the word.
“It just felt wrong,” she said, adding that not all relatives agree, as a handful are Republicans. “McCain is a true conservative and he’s only broken ranks with Bush a few times — he’s gone lock step with the Bush administration.”
....“We all cringed the first time he used it, and we have cringed every time since,” she said. “He’s not a maverick in uppercase or lowercase. He’s got a brand on him, and it’s a red ‘R’ for Republican. We are just furious that he took our family name and that he used it to connote he’s independent or a freethinker.
“My blood pressure has gotten so high, I’ve got to calm down — I’ve got to be around to vote, because I’m mad as hell.”.....
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
“His political career ended when he allowed members of the Communist Party, including Emma Tenayuca, a labor leader who advocated for pecan shellers, to meet at Municipal Auditorium. A lynch mob gathered outside the meeting and hanged Maverick in effigy. “
Ok, stop it. Stop using this term Senator McCain. It’s obviously jinxed by stupid politicians trying to be nice to communists...like...O...bama?
Hey wait, maybe he IS really a Maverick!
McCain...is a true conservative? Funniest thing I’ve read all day!
Go Spurs!!!
>>McCain...is a true conservative? Funniest thing I’ve read all day!<<
I wish he were! He is a maverick in that he has been to conservative republicans what Lieberman is to liberal democrats.
This morning, Mark Cuban said neither McCain nor Obama are Mavericks.
True story.
I thought it was the press that dubbed McCain a “maverick.”
Wow, must be a slow news day in San Antonio.
There are a number of differences between McCain and my grandfather and my uncle. One that comes to mind is cynicism - this move to get Sary on the ticket is purely political cynicism. There was not a cynical bone in my grandfather's body. He would be appalled at giving away good governance to curry favor with the radical religious right.
Source from the link at above picture.
Well...clearly she's not a true Mavrick, since that's right out of the Democrat talking points (I've heard that exact same phrase over and over...)Try Googling: "lock step with the Bush administration" you get about 225 hits...
Yeah, but is Mark Cuban really Cuban??
BTTT
I’ll be more blunt: this is the stupidest article I’ve read in a few months, it’s nothing but the vomited rantings of deranged liberals.
Sarah for President!
The only Maverick who matters.
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