[PJ-Comix]

Wait until I post the stuff about how he raised tons of campaign money with cash delivered in brown bags. If you had seen such scenes in the movies, you would have disregarded it as an over-exaggeration. And the money came from from oilmen and other Texas businessmen as well as from Labor Unions. Oodles of cash that were often stuffed into the pockets of LBJ's couriers (including John Connally). This sort of gives you a little historical background to take into account when the Demmycrats squawk about campaign finance "reform" as if it were the Republicans who were the real villains. As it stated in the book, LBJ was the grand master at raising campaign contributions, most of it illegal.

[Ann Archy]

Does Caro tell about Johnson STUFFING the Ballot Box in his early career? Connally finally told the story.

Does he tell about Johnson conducting meeting while sitting on the john doing his business?? Even his "paramour" Doris Kearns Goodwin thought it was funny!

Democrats are CLASSLESS.

[texas booster]

A friend of mine from Victoria, TX, the power base of LBJ, told a story of his father taking a box of ballots and hiding them under the County Courthouse. He said that this duty went to several youngsters as an initiation into Dem politics. Mike thinks that the ballots are probably still under the courthouse.

Politics in the Old South was a full contact sport. The outward corruption we hear of in Mexico was perfected here as a quiet sport, since even the Dems couldn't keep real corruption out of the papers.