Maureen McTeer Quotes
Stop crapping all over my husband.
Maureen McTeer, Wife of Canadian Conservative Party Leader and Prime Minister, Joe Clark, Statement to Reporters, Quoted in Atlantic, December 1977
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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.
McNickle claimed to have quoted her in an article and she did not say it and she was angry that he had put words in her mouth. Most political spouses would just suffer in silence, and if they did respond would do so in very polite and in the case of women “ladylike: terms. Ms. Kerry however was not only a very successful business woman but also was one of the richest women in America who had been in the tussles of male battles before
Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.
He was responding to criticism that the media was bashing the President.
Maureen Anne McTeer is a Canadian author and lawyer, married to Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada.
