Fallen Republican banners Democrat Daschle's legacy

Posted on Thu, Mar. 10, 2005

Fallen Republican banners Democrat Daschle's legacy

JOE KAFKA
Associated Press


PIERRE, S.D. - Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle was a good man who was devoted to public service and did many important things for his home state of South Dakota, a once-prominent Republican supporter says in a lengthy newspaper ad.

Bill Janklow - a former state attorney general, four-term governor and freshman member of Congress who resigned from that post after being convicted for causing a traffic death - has put the ad in papers across the state.

Janklow, a strong governor with a reputation of many achievements for South Dakota, ironically praises Daschle in the same vein.

"If we remember Tom Daschle the public servant for just one thing, it should be his ability to get things done for our state," Janklow wrote. "In a calling increasingly characterized by self-congratulatory press releases and photo opportunities, he cared only for results."
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http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/11097077.htm

and why? Why isn't he pitching for Thune?

"Car-Killer Endorses Daschle" ???

They were of the "fair weather" variety.

Not for nothing do they call it a Penitentiary. In his months of well-earned lonliness and misery, he found that all his bosom buddies were avoiding him like a fresh turd ground into an expensive carpet.

That will tend to clarify a man's mind quite a bit. It's just a shame it took an arrogant ascent and devastating crash to make him realize it -- but better late than never.

--p!

character witness, I think, in the traffic death case.

To stand up to republicans. Daschle got what he deserved for being a toady - defeated at election.

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than anyone else in the senate. He held the Dem senators together by sheer force of will, and it cost him his job. You know what the judiciary would look like without Daschle?

He had a front row seat while gay prostitute Gannon-Geckert, Thune and the "Vote Values" crowd used the machinery of smear to steal the campaign and set back the cause of economic development in South Dakota forty years.

Don't mock him for telling the truth.

No?

Then he's fair game.

So when someone sees the hypocrisy and cautiously jumps ship from the Holy Roller wing of the GOP and swims toward our lifeboat, let's throw him a life preserver, not an anvil.

too late with these people who have seen the light? It was pretty clear where the pubs were going when they decided to steal the first election. It just seems to me that the time to stand up for Daschle was when he was running and being run over by Thune and his thugs.

If the Moderate Republicans fear for the GOP, then why in the hell don't they fight for it.

In the end they tow the party line, mainly because they are more afraid of not being re-elected. They pay lip service to their constituents and do what they are told by the White House.

Until I see these "Mod Republicans" actually take a stand and denouce Bush and his neocon cronies, and the impending destruction
of the US, then they don't exsist.

but his point that Daschle got things done for SD is exactly why the folks in SD were so incredibly stupid kicking him out. Who can get done more for a state - minority leader of the Senate or a new jr Senator - stupid people for that reason alone.

If so, that was one hell of a collision.

. . . that he couldn't even get the victim's name right at his subsequent press conference. Janklow - :puke:

Report says Janklow was driving 70-75 mph at time of crash
by Cara Hetland, Minnesota Public Radio
August 21, 2003

A South Dakota state patrol accident report says Congressman Bill Janklow was traveling as much as 20 mph over the speed limit when he ran a stop sign and collided with a motorcycle, killing the rider last weekend.

Sioux Falls, S.D. — The State Patrol says Janklow's Cadillac was driving 70-75 mph in a 55 mph zone, and had just ran through a stop sign, when he collided with Randy Scott's motorcycle.

The report says Scott was traveling 55-60 mph when his motorcycle hit the side of Janklow's car. The car spun and came to a stop in a ditch 300 feet from the intersection. Scott died at the scene. His body was found in a soybean field.
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http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/08/21_hetlandc_morejanklow/

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January 22, 2004

By: Carson Walker
Associated Press


FLANDREAU, S.D. - Bill Janklow, who dominated South Dakota politics for three decades as governor and then congressman, was sentenced to 100 days in jail Thursday for a car crash that killed a motorcyclist and ended Janklow's career in disgrace.

After 30 days behind bars, Janklow will be allowed to leave jail during the day for up to 10 hours to perform community service. After he completes his jail term, he will be on probation for three years, during which he will not be allowed to drive.

The 64-year-old Republican was found guilty Dec. 8 of second-degree manslaughter, speeding and running a stop sign for a collision that killed 55-year-old motorcyclist Randy Scott at a rural intersection on Aug. 16.
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http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=5202&fcategory_desc=General

This creep was pulled over time after time for years as the Governor, and almost hit another car once, according to a witness, and was never challanged. He served 30 days for this killing.

http://www.argusleader.com/gallery/2003/janklowaccident/index.shtml

It's too fucking late, you bloated sack of maggot pus!
Thune's just a "sit-on-his-hands" kind of guy (Served in the House for six years and didn't introduce a SINGLE bill, while Daschle introduced over 400 while he served in both the House and Senate), and YOUR PARTY put him up in a massively dirty campaign against Daschle. If you really gave a crap, you'd have said this BEFORE THE DAMN ELECTION!

And to think I used to look up to that man. When I lived in South Dakota in my youth, I was fairly impressed when he organized a bus trip for the SD legislature to go to DC to speak to Reagan about the 80's farming crisis. Reagan didn't meet with him, but Veep Bush did. When I heard about Reagan's snubbing, I started to realize that Republicans didn't give a crap about the littl guy. So, in essence, I have Janklow to thank for me becoming a liberal.

Still, these words of his are too damn late.

"Departing" Governor . . .

Speak out for fairness and against smears and lies against members of the other party once, JUST ONCE before becoming "Fallen/Retired/Former/Departing" and the rest of the planet might be inclined to give a shit.

Otherwise, who cares?