Arkansas State Senator Mike Everett died about a week ago. He was one of the good guys, not known outside of the state but fighting the good fight. Read these articles about him and get a sense of the guy we lost.
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He was quite the hunter. And on the day the state Senate was to consider the bill repealing the law against sodomy, and inevitably defeat it soundly, Everett told his colleagues in their "quiet room" that he understood if they had to vote against the bill, even speak against it. But he said that if anyone got cute or snide or derisive about gay people, he would take that as a personal affront to his son and whip their you-know-whats right there on the Senate floor.
His colleagues tempered their rhetoric. They knew Everett could kick their you-know-whats. And they couldn't be sure he wouldn't.
He was a civil libertarian and liberal who would fight. Term limits already had left the legislature without this one brave vote, this one uncompromising voice. Now he's gone from the Earth, colon cancer having given no consideration to his status as an endangered species.
http://www.arktimes.com/brummett/092304brummett.htmhttp://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=2310367&nav=0jshQzRQ
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