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All good Americans, but especially Tewxans, love to fight
So the news media is going on about this little tussle in the Texas Lege in Austin, phhht! That is nothing.
Check this out:
Are Brawls in the Texas Legislature Something New? | Houston Public Media
And the history of dueling and fisticuffs goes way back to Jim Bowie in the Sandbar Fight and Sam Houston, heroes of the Texas Republic.
The Top 5 brawls in American political history - Bearing Arms -
All good Americans, especially Texans, love to fight and wont back down if offended no matter who you are. Clint Longly threw away a lucrative and promising NFL career by sucker punching Roger Staubach for an offence from the day before. He gave the legendary quarterback a few stitches in a cut above the eye and never played for Dallas again. I isaw an interview of him on TV during a family Thanksgiving dinner a few years later in which he said he would do it again. Every man in that room said 'Right!' because Roger had gotten too big for his britches and was talking down to a team mate.
But Longly got satisfaction, and some things you just cant let go, no matter the money.
But this recent legislator scuffle?
roflmao that was no fight.
So the news media is going on about this little tussle in the Texas Lege in Austin, phhht! That is nothing.
Check this out:
Are Brawls in the Texas Legislature Something New? | Houston Public Media
“There actually have been fist fights in the Legislature,” Taylor says. “It has been a while. I think it has been about 15 or 20 years or so the last time we had a scuffle.”
According to Texas Monthly, violent altercations in the Texas Legislature date back to the mid 1800’s, but most situations were between angry constituents and a politician.
Rarely was it between two officials.
Taylor says this incident can be partly attributed to the Texas culture.
Think about the 1990 gubernatorial race,” Taylor said. “The primary between Ann Richards and Jim Mattox, that thing was scorched earth. This in some respect, it’s not quite emblematic, but at least it is part of the colorful tradition of Texas politics. That once in a while we get these sort of things.”
According to Texas Monthly, violent altercations in the Texas Legislature date back to the mid 1800’s, but most situations were between angry constituents and a politician.
Rarely was it between two officials.
Taylor says this incident can be partly attributed to the Texas culture.
Think about the 1990 gubernatorial race,” Taylor said. “The primary between Ann Richards and Jim Mattox, that thing was scorched earth. This in some respect, it’s not quite emblematic, but at least it is part of the colorful tradition of Texas politics. That once in a while we get these sort of things.”
And the history of dueling and fisticuffs goes way back to Jim Bowie in the Sandbar Fight and Sam Houston, heroes of the Texas Republic.
The Top 5 brawls in American political history - Bearing Arms -
William Stanberry v Sam Houston “The Raven claws at Stanberry”
Born in Virginia, raised on the Tennessee frontier, tutored by Cherokee Indians that he lived with in his teens, and a veteran of the War of 1812, Sam Houston was an imposing 6’4” figure that knew how to break a man if he needed to. Houston, the former governor of Tennessee, was accused by Congressman William Stanberry of Ohio for giving out fraudulent contracts for rations while on a diplomatic mission to Washington D.C. on behalf of the Cherokee.
Upon hearing of Stanberry’s accusatory speech on the House floor Houston sent a letter to the Ohio Congressman challenging him to a duel. When his messenger, Congressman Cave Johnson, said that Stanberry refused to accept the message, Houston said, “I’ll introduce myself to the damned rascal.”
Houston approached Stanberry on a Washington D.C. street, called him a “damned rascal,” and proceeded to beat the man with a heavy cane. Stanberry was able to wriggle free just enough to grab his pistol and he attempted to fire a shot into Houston’s chest. The gun failed to fire and Houston wrested the weapon out of the battered Congressman’s hand.
A Sam Houston biographer, Marquis James, vividly described the end of the fight in his 1929 Pulitzer prize winning book, The Raven, “Houston then stood up, landed a few more licks with the cane and, as a finishing touch, lifted the Congressman’s feet in the air and ‘struck him elsewhere,’ as Senator Buckner rendered it in his evidence at Houston’s trial, ladies being present.”
Houston was cleared of fraud charges and received only a $500 fine for the beat-down of Rep. Stanberry that was later remitted. If anything, the assault would revive Houston’s moribund political career and he went on to become the hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, the “Father of Texas,” and the governor of Texas once it became a state.
Born in Virginia, raised on the Tennessee frontier, tutored by Cherokee Indians that he lived with in his teens, and a veteran of the War of 1812, Sam Houston was an imposing 6’4” figure that knew how to break a man if he needed to. Houston, the former governor of Tennessee, was accused by Congressman William Stanberry of Ohio for giving out fraudulent contracts for rations while on a diplomatic mission to Washington D.C. on behalf of the Cherokee.
Upon hearing of Stanberry’s accusatory speech on the House floor Houston sent a letter to the Ohio Congressman challenging him to a duel. When his messenger, Congressman Cave Johnson, said that Stanberry refused to accept the message, Houston said, “I’ll introduce myself to the damned rascal.”
Houston approached Stanberry on a Washington D.C. street, called him a “damned rascal,” and proceeded to beat the man with a heavy cane. Stanberry was able to wriggle free just enough to grab his pistol and he attempted to fire a shot into Houston’s chest. The gun failed to fire and Houston wrested the weapon out of the battered Congressman’s hand.
A Sam Houston biographer, Marquis James, vividly described the end of the fight in his 1929 Pulitzer prize winning book, The Raven, “Houston then stood up, landed a few more licks with the cane and, as a finishing touch, lifted the Congressman’s feet in the air and ‘struck him elsewhere,’ as Senator Buckner rendered it in his evidence at Houston’s trial, ladies being present.”
Houston was cleared of fraud charges and received only a $500 fine for the beat-down of Rep. Stanberry that was later remitted. If anything, the assault would revive Houston’s moribund political career and he went on to become the hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, the “Father of Texas,” and the governor of Texas once it became a state.
All good Americans, especially Texans, love to fight and wont back down if offended no matter who you are. Clint Longly threw away a lucrative and promising NFL career by sucker punching Roger Staubach for an offence from the day before. He gave the legendary quarterback a few stitches in a cut above the eye and never played for Dallas again. I isaw an interview of him on TV during a family Thanksgiving dinner a few years later in which he said he would do it again. Every man in that room said 'Right!' because Roger had gotten too big for his britches and was talking down to a team mate.
But Longly got satisfaction, and some things you just cant let go, no matter the money.
But this recent legislator scuffle?
roflmao that was no fight.
