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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (747976)	8/18/2006 4:47:53 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<Sounds like bribery, Al Capone handed out money in the 1930's to win public support, but he was still a gangster...>> Not Capone himself but many of his gang members would travel down to Havana, Illinois area to hunt ducks and gamble. They would spend so much cash on a weekend one tavern put in a safe for them. They also bought ducks from local poachers. Shipped so many ducks to Chicago the rail put in a spur for them. Around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years the guys would pass out oven ready ducks to the people in their territory. Having meat for the Holidays won a lot of support.