Can any Southern DUers help me locate a governor?

[saltpoint]

(Doesn't have to be a Southern DUer, but that's the region in question.)

I read somewhere many moons ago of a Southern governor who was dared by his staff and others to urinate on a visiting governor of New York. Evidently he rose to the dare and did the deed.

I do not know if newspapers would even cover such an event, but I have heard of accounts that it happened and wondered if anybody on DU can point me toward the names of the two governors involved -- both the urinator and the urinatee.

There is a red state/blue state theme to this and I was trying to find an account of the event.

Anyone with any info at all, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[amazona]

1. would this be during reconstruction?

Sometimes it's hard to find much on internet about events that occurred before internet.

I'd ask a "cool" local librarian. You can usually tell which ones get a kick out of looking up controversial or funny issues. She could at least give you an idea of where to start.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[saltpoint]

3. You are so right on that before-the-web info, amazona.

I may have to get a "cool" librarian, as you suggest.

There may be some around, too -- I love librarians. They were among the first and most vocal to oppose Ashcroft's insane Patriot Act.

I have tried typing in key words for this search on Google and Alta vista, but as you can imagine, I get something QUITE different from the political info I'm after.

Oh well. I'll keep trying.

Thanks for the response and good suggestion.

[Tummler]

2. It was George W. Bush, in 1998

Pataki's still fuming.








(Seriously, I don't know the answer, nor have I ever heard this story. :kick:)

[saltpoint]

4. Hi, Tummler. LOL at your post.

Kinda true, too.

And sad.

Can I be allowed to be homesick for a liberal New Englander like Dukakis even if he lost the election to Poppy?

Part of it is my blanket dislike of Poppy, I admit. But a big part is also a yearning to have a liberal in the White House again.

Why can't the world conform to my expectations!?! WHY!?!

[Tummler]

5. Kick

:kick: