Extreme Trivia #28
August 31, 2006 at 11:17 pm
First, the answer to last week’s question. Who was the last independent/third party incumbent Senator to succesfully run for re-election as an independent/third-party candidate?
Richard Andrews correctly said Harry Byrd of Virginia. Dr. Wong added: And before “Young” Harry Byrd, I think “Young” Bob LaFollette was the last non-Dem or -Rep who successfully ran for re-election (albeit as a Progressive). Nebraskan George Norris ran and won as an Independent in 1936, but lost his subsequent re-election bid in ‘42.
(By the way, if Bernie Sanders replaces Jim Jeffords in Vermont, it would be the first time an independent/third party Senator is replaced by a different independent/third party Senator.)
Now, the next Extreme Trivia question. In the great 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger-Yaphet Kotto-Richard Dawson masterpiece of a movie, “Running Man,” which Justice Department division regulated the Running Man contest?
Jay Webber said,
September 1, 2006 @ 9:05 am
Saw this on TV a week or three ago, wife couldn’t stand it. I believe that it is the Entertainment Bureau(maybe Division?) of the Justice Department.
Movie is extremely cheesy (although who couldn’t love Richard Dawson), but the Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) was better.
Jay Webber said,
September 1, 2006 @ 9:06 am
that would be the Stephen King book was better.
(sorry)
Peter Roff said,
September 1, 2006 @ 10:31 am
the entertainment division
Peter Roff said,
September 1, 2006 @ 11:28 am
By the way…
the photo on this item is the wrong Harry F. Byrd. The senior Sen. Byrd was born a Democrat and died a Democrat — though they almost ran him out of the national party for failing to support LBJ in 1964 — the Harry Flood Byrd to whom the question refers is, last I heard, still very much alive and livign in or around Winchester, Virginia.
Peter Roff said,
September 1, 2006 @ 11:40 am
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Dr. Ronald L. Heinemann’s extensive volume of Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virignia is a must have for anybody trying to understand southern politics. On his own, Harry Byrd is a rather tacid, boring politician who built a political machine by keeping as many people ineligible to vote as possible through poll taxing and through the support of the “courthouse ring.” Byrd is more a representative of a bygone era trying hard to keep pace with a newer and more complex world. In fact, Heinemann’s approach to Byrd shows us a political animal who lived, slept, and breathed for a campaign and for power. He was a gentle southern apple farmer and newspaper editor who could hold the federal government in his hand from his chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee. Through Byrd, Heinemann shows the South’s last, desperate grasp at retaining the society that they knew was wrong. This is an important read for anyone who wants to understand what southern’s were thinking, not simply write them off in a few curt sentences.
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