Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Granny D-Ceased

(Props to Mark)

Or
This Really Isn’t a Good Year for Democrats
(More merit for Mark)

Or
Live, Freeze and Die

Or
Rest Granny Rest
Doris Haddock, call name "Granny D," who in nearly a century of existence still hadn’t grasped the fruitlessness of U.S. governance, has died of a respiratory infection at the age of 100. Between 1999 and 2000, she walked from southern California to Washington, D.C., in an ultimately futile effort to advocate campaign finance reform. Sort of a very slow, very old Forrest Gump. She continued her efforts, celebrating her 99th birthday lobbying for campaign finance reform at the New Hampshire State House. In 2004, she ran an unsuccessful campaign to unseat New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg. A hell-raiser since before electricity, she was kicked out of Emerson College for getting married when that was illegal for college students; an honorary degree was awarded in 2000. Like most Democrats, victories were rare: her lone successful political effort was to stop planned H-Bomb tests in Alaska in 1960.

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