Barney Frank, gay liberal icon, announces he will not run for reelection

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[+8] - djjd62 - 11/29/2011[b]Barney Frank, gay liberal icon, announces he will not run for reelection[/b] well of course not, i read somewhere he died :P
[+4] - Ragman - 11/29/2011terminal lisping
[+3] - farmerman - 11/29/2011You shouldnt speak ill of the dead, unless its Gerry GArcia
[+3] - Ragman - 11/30/2011In case you are unaware...from 2007 to 2011, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, where he remains the ranking Democrat. That means he has a lot of power. People who...

@Lustig Andrei,

hunh?

retirement isn't death, is it?

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@Lustig Andrei,

He's just not running in the 2012 election, said something like 'you expect me to stay until I'm 106?' - he has ideas of writing and lecturing.

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@ehBeth,

You're right. (Next thing to it for a pol, though). The headline was on the obits page and I didn't read it all the way through. At this point I expect Mr. Frank to come on line and quote Mark Twain.

Embarrassed

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@Lustig Andrei,

He's very much alive.

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He is not dead.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Use the Report button and ask the moderators to edit your thread title.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Wherever I read it, maybe huffpo, he explained that his district had changed and there were many constituents he hadn't represented before thus needed to introduce himself and engage with, and thought it was time.

Good work, Barney, and keep on keeping on.

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@Lustig Andrei,

After reading your response Andrew, I now understand it was just a mistake. That brief second was a shocker.

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@Butrflynet,

Butrflynet wrote:

Use the Report button and ask the moderators to edit your thread title.

Done. Thank you so much for the suggestion. I forgot that that could be done.

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@Lustig Andrei,

It didn't occur to me that could be done. Good to know!

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@ossobuco,

Yeah, but now that I've reported the thread, it's folded up on my 'puter. I have to look at all the 'threads unavailable' little menu items and click one at random to get back onto it. Oy-vay!

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@Lustig Andrei,

Oy and Chihuahua!

Still - so many times have I cringed at my own misspelled/mistaken titles. Hope the pain doesn't go on too long, kid, though with sympathy for the mods.

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@ossobuco,

What did he die of?

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@farmerman,

terminal lisping

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@Ragman,

You shouldnt speak ill of the dead, unless its Gerry GArcia

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YAY!!!

Thank you, mods. Thank you very large.

(Now, of course, all the people coming late to this thread are wondering what the hell we're all talking about. Smile

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Barney Frank, gay liberal icon, announces he will not run for reelection

well of course not, i read somewhere he died Razz

Barney Frank, gay liberal icon, announces he will not run for reelection

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