Jim Butcher Quotes
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
Butcher, Jim. Dead Beat. Roc Books, 2005.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Dornan’s close friend Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham had insulted and attacked ethnic Irish Congressman Jim Moran. The two ended up getting physical with Cunningham clearly getting the worst of it. Dornan came to the defense of fellow right wing extremist Cunningham and fortunately was restrained. Moran had been a skilled boxer and still retained much of his skill. Cunningham, went to jail as the most corrupt congressman in American history. Dornan adopted a very low profile as he had been one of the unknowing enablers of Cunningham’s corruption.
There were very few politicians who would dare to even unfavorably mention the KKK. Long however took them on directly.
Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
Jim Butcher is an American author. He has written the contemporary fantasy The Dresden Files, Codex Alera and Cinder Spires book series.
