People do not know history at all,take term Rockefeller Republican what does it mean? Rich elitist out touch liberal to many people.Of course win elections more say about Republicans today and fact in history there have been many Republicans who come from rural areas,weren't rich and indeed were liberals.Two from New York come mind Irving Ives and Oswald Heck.Both come from upstate New York and before Rockefeller both were liberals.
Irving Ives was leader in state legislature:Majority leader and speaker(for short time).I passed the first anti-discrimination law in the country Ives-Quinn Act I believe passed in 1944.Despite being a Republican he was so poular with organized labor that first time in state history(and maybe only time) the AFL-CIO back for U,S Senate in 1946,a race he win.And while labor might sour in him because voted for Taft-Harley bill he win re-election 1952 by a landslide reluctantly ran for governor in 1954 barely lost to Averell Harriman(millionaire,U,S Ambassador to the U.K during WWII and the Soviet Union)by only 11,000 vote.He retired from Senate in 1958 and died in 1962.
Oswald Heck was majority leader in Assembly when Ives was Speaker but switch places because dispute over social welfare law,hence,Heck who support it become speaker in 1937 until he died of cancer in 1959.Know for his wit he is now just forgotten figure who time has pasted by,these men should be forgotten but shallow hollow public does forgot happen in the past cursing us forevermore.
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