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Widows Who Succeeded Their Husbands in Congress (PDF)
Rutgers University ^
| 2017
| Center for American Women and Politics
Posted on 07/03/2018 1:25:07 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
47 times that Governors have passed the buck and failed to honorably execute their authority.
How many of those spouses were really qualified to hold office?
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:10:07 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: hadaclueonce; null and void
You know that sounds like a tinfoil conspiracy theory.
Sad part is, you may well be correct.
Well, we’ll see.
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:10:24 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SamAdams76
Yes, but she was voted in, much to my surprise. I guess I was ahead of my time.
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:13:08 PM PDT
by
Concentrate
(ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
To: DannyTN
[How many of those spouses were really qualified to hold office?]
Well, there was Mel Carnahan’s wife.....Jean.
Oh, you said “qualified”. Well, ....
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:17:41 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:25:14 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: SaveFerris
Setting the stage Cindy McTraitor. Outrageous, it should cost Ducey the Primary for pulling this BS. Total betrayal of the base. Cindy is a Rat.
To: EveningStar
Proposed Constitutional amendment:
No office vacated by virtue the holder's death, infirmity or removal shall be occupied by an immediate relative for either the remainder of that partial term or for one full subsequent term.
To: EveningStar
It’s wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:35:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Architect of Avalon
If she goes to the senate and votes a straight conservative line she will be better that John-boy.
To: gibsonguy
Yes, just like her husband.
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posted on
07/03/2018 2:52:23 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: EveningStar
It’s wrong in every case. The idea of ‘inheriting’ congressional seats is the opposite of what the founders envisioned. No dukes or earls. No fiefdoms.
To: EveningStar
This is disgusting in a Republic.
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posted on
07/03/2018 3:12:17 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: EveningStar
Interesting. I thought McCaskill also gained a Senate seat this route. I mixed her up with Jean Carnahan.
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posted on
07/03/2018 3:20:31 PM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: Secret Agent Man
And being the multi-millionaire daughter of the owner of the Budweiser FRanchise in Phoenix.
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posted on
07/03/2018 3:36:03 PM PDT
by
Taxman
(We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
To: Sacajaweau; DesertRhino
Many of those widows didn't run for re-election in their own right. Some didn't even serve until a November special election to fill the rest of the term. Others went on to long congressional careers.
If you've got a whole slew of politicians just aching to get into Congress, you can understand why governors or voters might just give the job to the widow and spare the state or district the whole electoral circus.
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posted on
07/03/2018 3:39:14 PM PDT
by
x
To: Secret Agent Man
"For doing nothing but being married to the man who did do something to win the seat. REALLY?? Without Cindy's money...McLame would have never survived re-elections!!!
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posted on
07/03/2018 3:39:43 PM PDT
by
harpu
( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
To: Taxman
And again, that was none of her doing. Kids are born to parents all the time and they have nothing to do with it.
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posted on
07/03/2018 3:51:18 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: EveningStar
Interesting postscript to the list. It notes thst Margaret Chase Smith succeeded her husband in the US house and the elected to the Senate in 1950. Her wiki says she was elected with the endorsement of her dying husband and had no democrat opposition in 1940.
Olympia Snowe was elected to her husband as a state rep after his death and became the first woman to ever serve as a state rep, state senator, US Rep and US Senator.
I don’t think all of the woman on the list were appointed to their husband’s seat, but ran for it on their death.
On the flip side a ME state rep passed away about six months ago and her husband was elected to the seat.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/03/2018 5:30:07 PM PDT
by
BEJ
To: raiderboy
Its like going to the Doctor and have his wife show up.Or her husband.
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posted on
07/03/2018 5:33:22 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
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