I was at Pappas Seafood on the Gulf Freeway, eating lunch with Jim Henley, when I said something I’ll always regret.
Some in the Houston community will recall Jim as one of the Democrats who tried and failed to unseat Republican congressman John Culberson, before Lizzie Fletcher finally succeeded in 2018. At different times, he was also a Baptist preacher, a community organizer, a coffee farmer, and an elected trustee of the Harris County Board of Education. In between, he spent 20 years teaching at Lanier Middle School, first as a history teacher and then as the speech and debate coach.
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The second Catholic US president has attended church services at least 16 times since taking office.
His support for abortion rights is renewing debate on whether he should receive Communion.
A bishop organization is weighing drafting a document on Eucharistic consistency and public life.
President Joe Biden usually slips into the back pews of the mid-19th-century Catholic church during the priest s entrance procession. He genuflects, hugs his grandchildren when they re there, receives Communion, and typically leaves before other parishioners.
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Just three other men have won election as governor of their home states as members of both the Democratic and Republican parties. Crist, who won the governorship as a Republican in 2006, is trying to be the fourth.
He would follow in the footsteps of Mills Godwin, the first person to lead a state under both parties’ banners.
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Godwin won election in Virginia in 1965 as a Democrat, backed by influential Sen. Harry Byrd, a conservative Democrat who ran the commonwealth’s dominant political machine in the middle decades of the 20th century.
But Godwin was the last in his line as Byrd’s power faded. He was replaced four years later, forced out of office by Virginia’s one-term limit on governors, by Republican Linwood Holton, the first non-Democrat to run the state since William Cameron won election in 1881 as a Readjuster.
Walter Mondale, who rose from small-town Minnesota to vice presidency, dies at 93
By Patrick Condon, Patrick Condon April 19, 2021 9:09pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Walter F. Mondale, a preacher s son from southern Minnesota who climbed to the pinnacle of U.S. politics as an influential senator, vice president and Democratic nominee for president, died on Monday. He was 93.
Known as Fritz to family, friends and voters alike, Mondale died in Minneapolis, according to a statement from his family. As proud as we were of him leading the presidential ticket for Democrats in 1984, we know that our father s public policy legacy is so much more than that, read the Mondale family statement.