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Originally Posted by cologal
I was just a little younger, but my father was a Democratic committee man in our district. He took me to those meetings...He is the one by whom all candidates are judged and I suspect always will be. He press conferences were so much fun to watch.
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My father also was active in Democrat politics in my youth, as he was first a New York Civil Court judge, and then later a New York State Supreme Court judge where he served the bulk of his career; and those are elected positions. He never lost an election in his career. Later on he revoked his membership in the Democrat Party and registered as a Republican. The values promulgated by the exceedingly leftist transformation of his party were too much for him to take. This was personified in the person of Ronald Reagan, also a former Democrat, and it was his candidacy that inspired and spurred my father to make this, for him, a momentous change.