I shook Metzenbaum's hand one time at a fund raiser for John Gilligan, (who by the way is the dad of the current Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius) at the Aurora Memorial Library circa 1971. I was in 7th grade and as I recall Dave and I were rocking out at the time to GFR. Deep Purple and the Allman's. In short, it was a long, long time ago.
RIP Senator.
An unapologetic liberal, Metzenbaum helped pass measures to strengthen workers and consumers' rights, including a bill to provide employees with 60 days' notice of plant closings. He also promoted the Brady bill, which mandated a waiting period when buying a handgun.
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I remember a little more James Taylor and Guess Who from that time, but surely Grand Funk had made it's way to the turntable by then, courtesy of same said library.
I met Howie, too. When I was a busmonkey at the Aurora Inn he stayed there and I brought room service to him. Musta been around '74. Didn't tip me.
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