Former U.S. Senator Jim Bunning has died
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
Former U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, has died. He was 85.
A number of public officials, including Bunnings son David, a U.S. district judge, posted statements about his passing on social media.
Bunning was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986 and then to the U.S. Senate in 1998, where he served until 2011. The former Major League Baseball pitcher also is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell released a statement of his condolences saying Bunning rarely shied away from a new adventure.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article153045079.html
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)monmouth4
(9,685 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)He was a nasty SOB. Good riddance.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,817 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)since he played for the Phillies at one point. Of course we also have this -
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A member of the Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, he became more stridently conservative with time. He once told reporters he didn't read the papers and got "all my information from Fox News." In 2002, he was the committee's only member to oppose the confirmation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
His final Senate years were marked by bouts of bizarre behavior. In his 2004 reelection campaign, he accused members of his Democratic opponent's staff of assaulting his wife. He eventually lost the support of Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior senator, and did not seek a third term in 2010.
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stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)His miserable, heartless determination to punish the victims of the GOP financial collapse was, back then, even for a Repub, shocking. Now it's Republican norm in Congress. Bunnings financial sadism,economic fundamentalism today's GOP orthodoxy.
lastlib
(23,139 posts)a RW-POS of a politician.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)that he wasn't still in office.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)he was a great pitcher!
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)llmart
(15,532 posts)One less right wing asshole in this country.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Good news