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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Feb 7, 2023, 09:42 PM Feb 2023

Texas attorney shot by Cheney during 2006 hunting trip dies

Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years ago, has died. He was 95.

Whittington died at his home Saturday in Austin, family friend Karl Rove said Monday.

Before Whittington was thrust into the national spotlight after the accidental shooting, the attorney was long known for helping build the Republican Party in Texas into the dominant political force it is today and for being the man governors went to when they needed to clean up troubled state agencies.

Rove, an influential Republican strategist and former adviser to former President George W. Bush, said Whittington was “a man of enormous integrity and deep compassion” who was called on by leaders for “important tasks.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-attorney-shot-cheney-during-010850830.html

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Texas attorney shot by Cheney during 2006 hunting trip dies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2023 OP
So, if DICK had been a Dem...... MyOwnPeace Feb 2023 #1
is it a murder charge now? Shellback Squid Feb 2023 #2
Amazing that he held on for 17 years TlalocW Feb 2023 #3
Real power is when the victim apologizes.. keithbvadu2 Feb 2023 #4
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