Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and memory of my good friend Danny ``Flapper'' Burgess from my home area of Monroe County, Kentucky. Flapper was a larger-than-life figure. If you ever met Flapper Burgess, you left with a positive and memorable impression. He was an effective, old-school, local politician, who owned a little country store called Flapper's Market in Fountain Run, Kentucky. If you were a candidate for local office and wanted to carry the Fountain Run precinct, you had to have Flapper's support. Here is the last picture I have of Flapper and I in his store eating one of his signature baloney sandwiches. Flapper served many years on the Monroe County Fiscal Court representing the Gamaliel, White Oak Ridge, and Fountain Run precincts. Flapper truly was a man of the people. On behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives and all the people of south central Kentucky, I extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Danny ``Flapper'' Burgess. ____________________”