Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Davewilkes
Date: 27 May 00 - 01:09 AM

Kat,

I hope you can send me the pictures of your dog campaigning in digital format. I can put them to good use in the election.

David, [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 May 00 - 12:03 AM

I dunno if he knows, Rick, but when the last Bush ran, my old dog campaigned with a sign which said, "Even a dog knows what a bush is for!" I've got the pix to prove it.

kat

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 26 May 00 - 11:31 PM

But I'll bet "Dubya" WOULD revoke his pardon, if he knew that all us lefty folkies would get pissed. Wouldn't it be interesting if he revoked Nixon's pardon?

Just curious, do you think Bush knows who Leadbelly was?

Rick

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: GUEST,Cranky cynic
Date: 26 May 00 - 11:25 PM

As far as I'm concerned, Bush is just that, a bush. He will never be something as strong as a tree, even if he does become presidential elect. His name is a given name. Money can't buy you a true name, even though it may buy a seat as the president.

Lead Belly and Bush shouldn't even cross paths at this day and age. Lead Belly happened back then. Murder, slavery, deceit happened at that time. Things are different today. You can't take that back. Period.

Too much to say in a posted note/letter.

Write me if you want to talk more.

Sherrie [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Roger Himler
Date: 15 Apr 98 - 06:39 PM

You mean Stan Rogers wasn't trying to save a fellow passenger? Another belief, shattered. I took it for Gospel truth.

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 15 Apr 98 - 05:06 PM

The part about Stan Rogers saving passengers & dying because of it is Urban, oh no, I heard this ages ago & I also remember a sailor at the same time as Stan's death, singing the "Mary Ellen Carter" while awaiting rescue & claiming it gave him enough hope to hang on. Say it ain't so, I'm I still in Kansas? Barry

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Gene
Date: 15 Apr 98 - 11:10 AM

Other discussions at:

DEJANEWS.COM

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Earl
Date: 15 Apr 98 - 10:45 AM

I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone has the constitutional power to revoke a pardon.

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From:
Date: 14 Apr 98 - 08:27 PM

From the "Leadbelly Unpardoned" thread in alt.folklore.urban:

(begin excerpt) Subject: Proto-UL: Leadbelly Unpardoned From: [e-mail] (Lars Eighner) Date: 1998/04/05 Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In our last episode <[e-mail]>, the lovely and talented [e-mail] (James Nicoll) broadcast on alt.folklore.urban:

| As an April Fools Joke, a folkmusic paper/magazine |announced that Gov. Bush of Texas decided to unpardon |Leadbelly on the grounds that the Texas governor who |pardoned him over stepped his legal authority. Over on |r.a.m.f.,the announcement seemed to be taken at face |value so I predict in a few years, Leadbelly Unpardoned |will have joined Stan Rogers Dies Saving Passengers in |Cincinnati in folk music folklore.

The original piece ran in the March 27 issue of the The Texas Observer. The Texas Observer describes itself as "A Journal of Free Voices" and "The Tyrant's Foe; The People's Friend." It is not accurately described as a "folkmusic paper/magazine" but the story was picked up as fact by some publications which might fit that description.

That issue was the nearest to April 1, but the piece was supposed to be just another in a series of satires, not specifically an April Fools piece. The piece is datelined March 10. The satire was meant as commentary on Governor Bush's pious refusal to grant a reprieve to Karla Faye Tucker. It was only a matter of coincidence that The Texas Observer's first chance to comment on the execution came in the issue nearest April 1. (In the present, Texas Governors do not have the power to pardon and Bush could not have pardoned Karla Faye Tucker, but could have delayed her execution by 30 days.)

(end excerpt)

Subject: RE: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Mar 98 - 06:02 PM

Art there's been a little talk on ( rec.music.folk ) on this recently, sorry I don't know the fancy way to send you there. Barry

Subject: Gov. George Bush (Texas) & LEADBELLY??????
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28 Mar 98 - 01:03 AM

This smells like urban (net) legend, but I got a message recently saying that Gov. George Bush of Texas has revoked Leadbelly's 1924 pardon!! Bush felt the pardon was the wrong message to send to kids. Sure would appreciate some accurate info on this---if there is any.

Art