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In reply to the discussion: Who was the most influential person who helped shape your politics to this day? [View all]stevedeshazer
(21,653 posts)44. Me too.
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Edited to add the amazing Wayne Morse, who is the first politician I worked for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse
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Who was the most influential person who helped shape your politics to this day? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
OP
To be cynical, probably Thatcher; she showed me clearly just what I was against!
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Dec 2011
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Romulox
Dec 2011
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LBJ - If he hadn't messed up in Vietnam he would have been the greatest president ever, imo.
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Dec 2011
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The veterinarian in OH who in 1973 refused to consider hiring me for a kennel job
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Dec 2011
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My father who talked continually about what FDR did for us. He lived through the Depression and
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Dec 2011
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etherealtruth
Dec 2011
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Liberal family: my great grandfather was a Liberal member of parliament. We live in Ottawa. We
applegrove
Dec 2011
#43