Gregory Morrow wrote:
> blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:05:51 -0600, Chris Marksberry wrote:
>>> When we drive though that area I get preoccupied wondering how those
> people
>>> who live in the middle of nowhere manage to shop or do anything for that
>>> matter. I'm just a city girl though. I guess Clayton Williams still
> lives
>>> there... the guy who so infamously insulted Ann Richards.
>>>
>>> Chris
>> claytie? i'm guessing ann got her own back.
>
>
> I met Ann years ago here in Chicago, on Michigan Avenue. I wanted to shake
> her hand and did so, saying I really admired her, to which she responded,
> "Thank you, honey!" along with a dazzling smile. She was a REAL gal...and a
> GREAT one, too.
>
> Texas always struck me as a rather schizophrenic place, you had real
> populists like her, Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, and LBJ, and then you had
> the 'distaff' side of that. Very' interesting' to say the least...
>

I never met her, but I was a big fan of hers. I loved her sense of humor
and her willingness to fight for what she believed in. The day she
passed on was my last day of radiation therapy. When you get your last
treatment, you have to ring a bell. I rang for me and for Ann.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life