Politics Is Good

By Kleinheider Posted on July 24, 2009 at 7:26 am

So says Sen. Roy Herron:

“A Republican is quoted as having said a ‘politics’ is a compound word from the word ‘poli’ meaning many and the word ‘ticks’ meaning blood-suckers. You might expect that a Republican on occasion might define ‘politics’ as meaning blood-suckers.

“But I remember what Anna Belle Clement O’Brien taught me and also, I suspects would some of you. Sen. O’Brien started many a speech with these words: ‘Politics is a beautiful word to me. Politics is how children get fed; we have schools for our children, our roads get built and people have a better way of life.’

“Certainly, the Democratic women from this county and this city and with the leadership you provided, politics is how so many good things happen.”

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