❤️ Mo and Dorothy. Mo was Chair of the Republican State Platform Conmittee in 1972. He appointed me, a 20 year old college student as Chair of the Human Resources plank. And I drafted a Pro-Choice plank that was adopted ✊🏼😁
Dorothy was a great naturalist helping save endangered wild flowers like Pink Lady Slippers She found some on the First Governor’s canoe 🛶 trip in 1983
Where do we get more like them? Surely they are needed now. Surely they are out there?
With all due respect to those men, we are finally in a place we can get women elected to high office. Maybe, just maybe some of the statesmen we need are actually stateswomen.
My mother raised seven boys and three girls. She often blamed the boys’ bad actions on “testosterone poisoning”. Surely it leaks into adulthood.
Time to give some women a shot at fixing what is surely broken on today’s politics.
Good column, Richard, and good picks for your top three bits of political advice you ever received. The three political peeps who gave you those nuggets were certainly great ones. And as I think back on your real political mentor Gov. Bob Ray, don't I remember that he eventually adapted a rule of, "Never be interviewed on TV by a dog"? I think that came after the governor had been significantly upstaged in an interview by "Floppy," the puppet dog who starred on WHO-TV, with his master Duane Ellett in control.
Thank you, Richard, for sharing these memories of these gentlemen, these gentle people. I remember when running for public office was seen, for the most part by most people, as a noble deed, as honorable work. These men, as well as Governor Ray, are the very embodiment of what makes politics honorable. I hope, some days I still believe, that there are good people who work under the radar to carry on the honorable work of politics.
Great column Richard with lessons all politicians should follow. The word “fight” is way to prevalent in today’s political life, and look where it has brought us.
I also believe that the ability to “never start mad” is great advice for politics and in general.
These were people with profound good sense! We need more of them .
A great column. I met Robert Ray only once, but I will always remember his manifest decency. In 1981 I served as local Republican County Chairman, and Gov Ray journeyed from Des Moines to one of the farthest and smallest Iowa counties to be our featured speaker for our event at my father’s farm. Having long since been driven out of the Republican Party, I always think first of Robert Ray when I consider what the party once was.
Lots of wisdom here.
❤️ Mo and Dorothy. Mo was Chair of the Republican State Platform Conmittee in 1972. He appointed me, a 20 year old college student as Chair of the Human Resources plank. And I drafted a Pro-Choice plank that was adopted ✊🏼😁
Dorothy was a great naturalist helping save endangered wild flowers like Pink Lady Slippers She found some on the First Governor’s canoe 🛶 trip in 1983
Where do we get more like them? Surely they are needed now. Surely they are out there?
With all due respect to those men, we are finally in a place we can get women elected to high office. Maybe, just maybe some of the statesmen we need are actually stateswomen.
My mother raised seven boys and three girls. She often blamed the boys’ bad actions on “testosterone poisoning”. Surely it leaks into adulthood.
Time to give some women a shot at fixing what is surely broken on today’s politics.
Always such good words of wisdom, Richard.
Good column, Richard, and good picks for your top three bits of political advice you ever received. The three political peeps who gave you those nuggets were certainly great ones. And as I think back on your real political mentor Gov. Bob Ray, don't I remember that he eventually adapted a rule of, "Never be interviewed on TV by a dog"? I think that came after the governor had been significantly upstaged in an interview by "Floppy," the puppet dog who starred on WHO-TV, with his master Duane Ellett in control.
Thank you, Richard, for sharing these memories of these gentlemen, these gentle people. I remember when running for public office was seen, for the most part by most people, as a noble deed, as honorable work. These men, as well as Governor Ray, are the very embodiment of what makes politics honorable. I hope, some days I still believe, that there are good people who work under the radar to carry on the honorable work of politics.
Great column Richard with lessons all politicians should follow. The word “fight” is way to prevalent in today’s political life, and look where it has brought us.
I also believe that the ability to “never start mad” is great advice for politics and in general.
These were people with profound good sense! We need more of them .
A great column. I met Robert Ray only once, but I will always remember his manifest decency. In 1981 I served as local Republican County Chairman, and Gov Ray journeyed from Des Moines to one of the farthest and smallest Iowa counties to be our featured speaker for our event at my father’s farm. Having long since been driven out of the Republican Party, I always think first of Robert Ray when I consider what the party once was.
Keep up the good fight Richard!