"Bob, we need you to run for the US Senate."
"Jim, are you crazy. Everyone loves the Republican incumbent. I'll get my brains beat out in November."
"Just run, Bob. Farley, Flynn and the boys will take care of the Republican for you."
In 1939, the Wagner-Rogers bill provided for rescuing 20,000 German children from the Nazis. At the last minute, Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina used a procedure maneuver to prevent a final vote on grandpa's friend Bob Wagner's bill before WW2 broke out.
"Jim, are you crazy. Everyone loves the Republican incumbent. I'll get my brains beat out in November."
"Just run, Bob. Farley, Flynn and the boys will take care of the Republican for you."
In 1939, the Wagner-Rogers bill provided for rescuing 20,000 German children from the Nazis. At the last minute, Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina used a procedure maneuver to prevent a final vote on grandpa's friend Bob Wagner's bill before WW2 broke out.
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Editor, Arizona Republic,
Regarding Steve Benson's United States of Anti-semitism cartoon (10/30/18), I know what my family's senator was doing in 1939. What were the Benson family senators doing? Does Steve have something he needs to tell us?
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