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AlbertCat

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45. I've been told that Jesse Helms never actually said that.

Reply to coalition_unwilling (Reply #25)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 02:12 PM

Nov 2012

He didn't.

It was a Texas Governor in the 1920's.

Jesse Helms was not as bad as he became toward the end. He even voted for the NC School of the Arts... the "tippy-toe school".... the 1st state supported school for performing arts.... in the 1960's. NC used to be known as "the state of the arts". Now we are trying to be Mississippi!

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