Starter of this subject: Nate Williams
Last post in this subject: 11/6/2000
Messages in this subject: 2
| Nate Williams | 11/6/2000 2 replies |
| On this the eve of our great National Election, besides urging you to get out and vote, I'd like to ask who it was and where he said it - the guy that said "Vote Early and Vote Often"? |
| Pudge | 11/7/2000 1 replies |
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I don't know who first said it, but it may derive from a vaudeville-era song "Vote Early and Often for Curley." The reference is to James Michael Curley, a shrewd political operator who served four terms as mayor of Boston with a term as governor of Massachusetts and a stint as member of Congress thrown in.
During his last term as mayor he served 5 months in prison for mail fraud before having his conviction commuted by President Truman. (I'm keeping my vote a secret. Otherwise you'd be green with envy.) |
| Nate Williams | 11/7/2000 0 replies |
| Right On Pudge! Yes it would be taboo to reveal voting preferentials but I couldn't get the exciting GREEN Bay Packer Monday night football upset over Minnesota off my mind whilst I did my ballot |