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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on March 16, 2014, 05:50:59 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014756809
Oh my.
Well, actually, it's a pretty short thread because most primitives have no idea who Bo Callaway was.
alp227 (24,578 posts) Sun Mar 16, 2014, 04:14 AM
Former Georgia congressman Bo Callaway dies
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) —Howard "Bo" Callaway Sr., a former Georgia congressman, Army secretary and one of the founders of Callaway Gardens, died Saturday. He was 86.
Callaway died at an assisted-living facility in Columbus from complications from a brain hemorrhage he suffered about two years ago, said Rachel Crumbley, a Callaway Gardens spokeswoman.
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Callaway was elected to Congress in 1964, becoming the first Republican congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction. He left Congress to run for governor in 1966. Callaway actually received 3,000 more votes than the Democratic nominee, segregationist Lester Maddox, but because former Gov. Ellis Arnall mounted a write-in campaign, no candidate received the majority needed to win.
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In 1973, he was appointed Secretary of the Army. From 1970 until 2003, he was the principal owner and CEO of Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado. In 1980, he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in Colorado and he was chairman of the state Republican Party there from 1981 until 1987.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/former-georgia-congressman-bo-callaway-dies
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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Bo Callaway dies at age 86; also an interview with Jimmy Carter, who was a political rival to Callaway throughout the 1960s.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Howard “Bo†Callaway: ‘Superstar’ of Republican party
In 1997, a House Ethics Committee investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich named Callaway's Lincoln Foundation as among tax exempt organizations used to subsidize Gingrich political activities.
Bo Callaway may be of only slight, or no, interest to decent and civilized people, but he was important in helping to evolve my own political consciousness at a very young age.
I was too young to know that he was a congressman, and too young to absorb the significance of his campaign for governor, but by the time he was Secretary of the Army, I was old enough to understand what he was--the midwife bringing about the birth of the Republican party in the South.
<<<liked the idea of an inclusive Republican party, and thought it was about time the South got on board too.
yankee dandee (10 posts) Sun Mar 16, 2014, 05:05 AM
1. Bo
Living in Georgia, it is good to see the old racist frats dying off...it will take another century to get rid of the good ol' white boys and their grip on politics here.
No loss.
<<< had the same ^^^ attitude about when, thank God, Vast Teddy kicked the bucket.