re: #64 Decatur Deb

An analogue is the practice in southern states of trading off positions to get around term limits. George Wallace and his wife Lurleen swapped the governorship a couple times for a total of about 20 years..

Wow. I already knew George Wallace was a dick but this:

“She made her gubernatorial race carrying a tragic secret: she had been diagnosed with cancer as early as April 1961, when her surgeon biopsied suspicious tissue that he noticed during the cesarean delivery of her last child. As was common at the time, her physician told her husband the news, not her. George Wallace insisted that Lurleen not be informed. As a result, she did not get appropriate follow-up care. When she saw a gynecologist for abnormal bleeding in 1965, his diagnosis of uterine cancer came as a complete shock to her. When one of her husband’s staffers revealed to her that Wallace had discussed her cancer with them, but not her, during his 1962 campaign three years earlier, she was outraged.”

Motherfucker sacrificed his own WIFE because he was so determined to hold on to power.