Posted on 07/06/2014 1:43:31 PM PDT by Borges
Alan Dixon, who served two terms in the U.S. Senate from Illinois, died this morning at his home in downstate Fairview Heights, according to his son.
Dixon had been experiencing heart problems in recent months, his son Jeff Dixon said. He would have turned 87 on Monday.
Dixon, a Democrat, served in the Senate from 1981 until 1993. He was defeated by Carol Moseley Braun in the Democratic primary, his first political loss in more than 40 years of public life.
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Damn - one day before his birthday. RIP
When did he get out of prison?
Illinois- strike one
Dim-bulb-crat -strike two
Senator ( which is Latin for feces bag) - strike three
We know then that this dork’s death improved the morals and the IQ of the country by a measurable amount.
Sarcasm? You bet.
Truth? You bet.
"In the fall of 1970, Karl Rove, a future White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush Administration, used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead.
Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing," and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally. Dixon eventually won the election. Rove's role would not become publicly known until August 1973. Rove told the Dallas Morning News in 1999, "It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret it."[2]
I’m nor sure what was worse, him dying or the fact that he was defeated by Carol Moseley Braun in the Democrat Primary.
Well, at least he voted to confirm Justice Thomas. RIP.
Carol Mosley Braun made Maxine Waters seem like a genius.
"Patriot" is a word I'd refuse to use to describe *any* Rat officeholder of the last 40 years.Before that...possibly.
“In the fall of 1970, Karl Rove, a future White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush Administration, used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead.
Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers promising “free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing,” and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon’s rally. Dixon eventually won the election. Rove’s role would not become publicly known until August 1973. Rove told the Dallas Morning News in 1999, “It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret it.”[2]
Back before the Watergate investigation when Rove and the GOP had the fortitude to get their hands dirty.
It took a Mosley Braun to bring him down?
Weak, real weak.
Rip
Carol Mostly Fraud could never make anyone look like a genius!
-Illinois escapee
He didn't "only serve two terms" by choice. He was defeated by another liberal who was worse than him.
One of the few big Illinois Dems never to be indicted.
“Well, at least he voted to confirm Justice Thomas. RIP.”
Most people blame that vote on why he lost his seat. It was a GUTSY vote for a Democrat and probably helped the country in far more ways than any of his other votes.
RIP Mr. Dixon.
ROFL!! It's our GOVERNORS who go to Prison ....
Did Carol Mosley Braun made Shelia Jackson Lee look like a genius?
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