What happened to Teddy Kennedy? Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW WEST WINGERS! May 2022 bring you health and happiness (to bring us good stories).
Maybe he took a long drive off a short pier...What happened to Teddy Kennedy? Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW WEST WINGERS! May 2022 bring you health and happiness (to bring us good stories).
Elevating a sitting MP to the Lords is rather unusual. Usually elevation to the Lords is a post retirement honour. I can't think of any examples of someone going straight from the lower to the upper house.View attachment 707260
Friday December 31st, 2021
New Year Honours: William Morgan becomes a Lord, Frank Cameron & Jack Norris knighted
William Morgan who served in three of the four great offices of state (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary & Chancellor between 2011 & 2018) has been elevated to the House of Lords in the New Year Honours list.
Morgan who has been MP for Bury North since 1996, is also a former serving member of the Parachute Regiment, having served during the Falklands War and in Northern Ireland during the troubles. His elevation means a by-election will be required in the new year.
MP's Frank Cameron and Jack Norris whom have both served as deputy Prime-Minister have been knighted, and both men will now have "Sir" before their name. Both men will remain as MP's.
In "universe" it is because he held all "three" great officers of state other than PM, also you are forgetting Willie Whitelaw. At the 1983 General Election he went into it as Home Secretary and "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister. He ran for re-election in his seat "Penrith and The Border" which he won, but two days after his election win, he was elevated to the House of Lords, meaning a by-election just 6 weeks after the general election. Whitelaw didn't retire he was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council and was still "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister until 1988 when he resigned from the government following a stroke.Elevating a sitting MP to the Lords is rather unusual. Usually elevation to the Lords is a post retirement honour. I can't think of any examples of someone going straight from the lower to the upper house.
Ah yes. I had forgotten about WhitelawIn "universe" it is because he held all "three" great officers of state other than PM, also you are forgetting Willie Whitelaw. At the 1983 General Election he went into it as Home Secretary and "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister. He ran for re-election in his seat "Penrith and The Border" which he won, but two days after his election win, he was elevated to the House of Lords, meaning a by-election just 6 weeks after the general election. Whitelaw didn't retire he was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council and was still "de facto" Deputy Prime-Minister until 1988 when he resigned from the government following a stroke.
What happened to Teddy Kennedy? Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW WEST WINGERS! May 2022 bring you health and happiness (to bring us good stories).
Since his challenge of Carter still occurred ITTL, let's say that the strain of his family life nearly falling apart in the mid-1970s (one son had bone cancer that required his leg to be amputated, another kept having severe asthma attacks, while his wife was arrested for drunk driving and was in-and-out of clinics for alcoholism and emotional exhaustion) and his own well-documented substance issues are slightly worse ITTL and he opts not to run in 1976 citing family matters. He is incensed by Carter's presidency and comes out of retirement for his 1980 primary bid. He takes his loss as a sign that his time in the sun is over and does what his brothers were not able to do--retire on his own terms and die of old age surrounded by family and friends after decades as a elder statesman and liberal icon.Maybe he took a long drive off a short pier...
January 11th.When is the Iowa caucus again?
Date | State | Type | States per Day | Dels |
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Tuesday Jan 11th | Iowa | Caucus | 1 | 38 |
Tuesday Jan 18th | New Hampshire | Primary | 1 | 20 |
Tuesday Jan 25th | Nevada | Primary | 1 | 26 |
South Carolina | Primary | 2 | 49 | |
Tuesday Feb 1st | Alabama | Primary | 1 | 50 |
Arizona | Primary | 2 | 56 | |
Arkansas | Primary | 3 | 38 | |
California | Primary | 4 | 169 | |
Colorado | Caucus | 5 | 37 | |
Massachusetts | Primary | 6 | 40 | |
Minnesota | Caucus | 7 | 39 | |
Missouri | Primary | 8 | 53 | |
Montana | Primary | 9 | 30 | |
New Jersey | Primary | 10 | 49 | |
New York | Primary | 11 | 91 | |
North Dakota | Caucus | 12 | 28 | |
Oklahoma | Primary | 13 | 42 | |
Tennessee | Primary | 14 | 57 | |
Utah | Primary | 15 | 39 | |
Wyoming | Caucus | 16 | 29 | |
Saturday Feb 5th | Kansas | Caucus | 1 | 39 |
Louisiana | Primary | 2 | 45 | |
Maine | Caucus | 3 | 21 | |
Washington | Caucus | 4 | 43 | |
Tuesday Feb 8th | DC | Primary | 1 | 19 |
Delaware | Primary | 2 | 16 | |
Maryland | Primary | 3 | 38 | |
Virginia | Primary | 4 | 48 | |
Saturday Feb 26th | American Samoa | Caucus | 1 | 9 |
Guam | Caucus | 2 | 9 | |
Hawaii | Caucus | 3 | 19 | |
Northern Marianian Islands | Caucus | 4 | 9 | |
Puerto Rico | Primary | 5 | 23 | |
US Virgin Islands | Primary | 6 | 9 | |
Tuesday March 8th | Alaska | Caucus | 1 | 26 |
Connecticut | Primary | 2 | 28 | |
Idaho | Caucus | 3 | 31 | |
Illinois | Primary | 4 | 64 | |
Indiana | Primary | 5 | 56 | |
Kentucky | Primary | 6 | 47 | |
North Carolina | Primary | 7 | 74 | |
Ohio | Primary | 8 | 79 | |
Rhode Island | Primary | 9 | 19 | |
Texas | Primary | 10 | 161 | |
Vermont | Primary | 11 | 16 | |
Tuesday March 15th | Florida | Primary | 1 | 123 |
Michigan | Primary | 2 | 56 | |
Mississippi | Primary | 3 | 38 | |
Wisconsin | Primary | 4 | 41 | |
Tuesday April 19th | Georgia | Primary | 1 | 75 |
Pennsylvania | Primary | 2 | 68 | |
Tuesday May 17th | Nebraska | Caucus | 1 | 34 |
Oregon | Primary | 2 | 34 | |
West Virginia | Primary | 3 | 33 | |
Tuesday May 31st | New Mexico | Primary | 1 | 31 |
South Dakota | Primary | 2 | 28 |
Nice homage 😉Class 2
1978-1991: Richard Rumson (Republican)
Elections: 1978, 1984
You can blame the show for 2006!! but 2010 was my fault....It's honestly not a wonder that South Carolina's weird affinity for the Democrats (to the point where they voted for a liberal, Hispanic Catholic twice!
Yes, we have a writers meeting in a couple of days, we will have a date confirmed then.Is there going to be a State of the Union address this year?