• Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.net
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          26 days ago

          Always double-check your Kennedys:

          In 1958, the two JFKs shared the statewide ballot, and both were re-elected to their respective offices. No one knows how many Massachusetts voters, in that election or the two previous, thought John Fitzgerald Kennedy was doing such a good job in the US Senate that he deserved to be state treasurer as well. John Francis Kennedy admitted that some voters had “been fooled for years,” but he maintained that “not more than 5 per cent” of the electorate confused him with JFK. But it’s not because the state treasurer had done much to distinguish himself from his down-to-the-middle-initial namesake. He refused to buy radio or television time, rarely campaigned in public, and never spent more than $200 on any of his campaigns.

        • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          26 days ago

          Just as evil as the other Kennedys tho

          Members of Kennedy’s family were slaveowners before the Civil War, and have been political and economic elites in Louisiana since the 19th century. Kennedy’s great-great-great-grandfather enslaved 120 people in Catahoula and Concordia Parishes.