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April 29, 2005This Is Just Not Right...By Andrea Meyer
The partisanship on the Republicans' side has officially gone too far. Willie Nelson is an important part of Texas culture, not to mention a country music legend, with fans belonging to all political parties. Even people like me who are not country music fans enjoy his work. The man has even made guest appearances on King of the Hill. He has the Hank Hill seal of approval. The reasons given by these state reps are completely ludicrous. Do Democrats in Houston like having an airport called Bush International around? Maybe not, but the man is an ex-president. DC is predominantly Democratic, and they have an airport named after Reagan. Ames, IA has a street named after Mamie Eisenhower, and Democrats live there. Pembroke Pines, FL, has a lot of streets named after former presidents, and my Republican ex-friend never complained about living on Johnson Street--not to my knowledge, anyway. I don't think that a simple road named after a Texas legend would ruffle anyone's feathers or cause rioting among constituents. And I don't think that either of the stick-in-the-mud state reps would ever be associated with drinking, smoking, or supporting Democrats. I think that Reps. Ogden and Wentworth deserve a few calls to their offices... Posted by Andrea Meyer at April 29, 2005 03:13 PM | TrackBack
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I actually wrote an editorial for the Texan on this issue two weeks ago. It can be found here: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/04/12/Opinion/Viewpoint.Noted.In.Passing-920735.shtml Posted by: Brian Boyko at April 29, 2005 03:50 PMThanks for the link! Posted by: Andrea Meyer at April 29, 2005 04:20 PMYesterday was so-called "Former Member" day at the Capitol, where dozens of ex-House members showed up for a BBQ. I was thrilled to see former Speaker Jimmy Thurman, a great Texan and friend who was a mentor to me when I was a young man starting out at the Capitol. Representative Mark Homer (a Democrat, like Speaker Thurman) has sponsored legislation to name a strip of highway in East Texas in Jimmy's honor. The bill keeps lagging in the Senate, because members in that body want to refrain from naming roads for living persons. I think it's a shame. I want to name roads for Jimmy Thurman, Willie Nelson, George H.W. Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, James Addison Baker III, Jan Bullock, my dog and every other worthy Texan. I'd rather drive down Laura Bush Blvd. and turn on Lyle Lovett Lane than motor through 91st Street. Posted by: jim at April 29, 2005 05:58 PMAndrea: Willie is 72 today. Despite petty people like Wentworth and Ogden, many roads in this great land are and will be named for Willie Nelson. If it's only in our minds, then so be it. In fact, there will be more roads named for Willie than for either one of these protectors of humanity, so-called. (My first "Willie Road" was riding with "momma" from El Paso to Fort Stockton in the middle of the last century and listening to the AM radio in that push-button Mercury. That's the first I knew of him, I suppose. I was there some two decades later when he made his way to Luckenbach in 1972 at what at that time was the "Luckenbach World's Fair" that Hondo Crouch and Guich Koock concocted. I have never traveled either road again without hearing Willie in my head. And there are many more roads he's become a part of since then.) What a big guy Willie is. He's the eight-lane freeway, the U.S. Highway, the country road and the dirt lane. Ogden and Wentworth don't rate an obscure footpath by comparison. Okay, me and my dog (named "Willie," by the way, after Willie Nelson, William Barrett Travis and William Jefferson Clinton, are going out in the backyard and take a leak.) On the road again, Ken Molberg Posted by: Ken Molberg at April 30, 2005 08:44 PMKen-- Thank you so much for your post. That was one of the most beautiful, eloquent posts I've ever read on BOR. You're absolutely right. Willie is part of the nation's highways, wide open spaces, and best of all, part of the nation's collective heart and soul. A legend. In the musical concert of life, Willie is the stage and lights, and Ogden and Wentworth are the port-a-potty that was knocked over in the parking lot. Thanks again for your post--I always enjoy reading what you have to share. Posted by: Andrea Meyer at May 1, 2005 12:14 AM
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