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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: April 02, 2004, 03:46:56 PM »

cough (JMF's drudge threads) cough

Interesting choice of a username Wink

William "Boss" Tweed
The ultimate machine politician

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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2004, 04:17:55 PM »

is that miamiU? Leave it to a New Yorker to bring up the tweed ring. nice bunch of guys. liep's admonishment seemed to have the opposite effect.

yep it's me.

Tweed employed many immigrants and poorer New Yorkers, I don't see why people have such a beef with him.

I kind of like him... he had style Wink

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Filuwaúrdjan
Realpolitik
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Posts: 67,676

« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2004, 04:37:00 PM »

is that miamiU? Leave it to a New Yorker to bring up the tweed ring. nice bunch of guys. liep's admonishment seemed to have the opposite effect.

yep it's me.

Tweed employed many immigrants and poorer New Yorkers, I don't see why people have such a beef with him.

I kind of like him... he had style Wink

He also created lots of jobs, that's why I like him.

New York's Huey Long

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