'we dont want nobody nobody sent'

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  • July 6, 2016 at 3:57 pm #48087
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    Saw a blurb in a paper that was blowin around
    the courthouse floor. Some guy named Mikva, who died, had
    a nice anecdote.

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    CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s original “nobody nobody sent,” Democratic icon Abner Mikva has died, after a career spanning all three branches of federal government.

    While in law school in 1948, Mikva was trying to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson’s bid for the governor’s office, but when he told a cigar-chomping ward committeeman no one had sent him, he was turned away with the infamous phrase “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” Mikva has said that moment launched his political career, starting as a state legislator, and rising to Congress, the federal bench, and eventually a White House advisor.

    Mikva, who also was a political mentor to President Barack Obama, died Monday at age 90. The president mourned Mikva’s passing, noting when he was a federal judge in 1993, he ruled the ban on gay serving in the military to be unconstitutional:..
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    ‘Nobody Nobody Sent’, Abner Mikva Dead At Age 90

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