Wednesday Reads

 Obituary:  Former representative, senator, and governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, 92, has died.  He had been a Republican for most of his career, but he later switched to being an independent.

Weicker was one of the good guys, one of the Republicans who cared about the country instead of wealthy donors.  He is best remembered for being on the 1973 Watergate Committee, chaired by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina.  I remember watching the hearings--ALL of them--and remember how indignant Senator Weicker was over Nixon and company's wrongdoing.

The entire hearings have been archived online.  You can watch them here.

Snip from the article:

Weicker left elective office in January 1995 as Connecticut’s 85th governor, capstone to a career dominated by two decades in Washington, where he emerged as a fierce defender of abortion rights, the separation of church and state, and funding for social services, oceanic exploration and AIDS research.

His legacy includes co-authoring the Americans with Disabilities Act, introduced in his final year in the U.S. Senate and passed 18 months after his departure, and striking an exclusivity deal as governor that allowed two tribal casinos to flourish while effectively banning commercial competitors.

As I said, he was a good guy, among the last of the decent Republicans.

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