Just how insane are those governors who want to refuse the unemployment benefits part of the stimulus package?
I think I've found an historical measuring stick for the crazy they feel.
Former New Hampshire Governor, and later Senator, Styles Bridges, is famous, or infamous, rather, for a few things.
Such as his staunch support for Joseph McCarthy. And his friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, whom he used to spy on his political enemies. And then there's the time he blackmailed Senator Lester Hunt (D-WY) into dropping out of his reelection race, or else face his son being prosecuted for the misdemeanor of soliciting sex from a male undercover cop. (Hunt refused. Bridges went forward and outed the boy. The Senator from Wyoming later shot and killed himself in his office.)
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