Dawkins Retires - Frogtown's ultraliberal

Dawkins Retires - Frogtown's ultraliberal senator Andy Dawkins is finally retiring from the Senate, and will finally officially live in the same house with his wife, ultraliberal Ellen Anderson.

I met Andy Dawkins on my old KSTP talk show in 1986. He was just back from a commie-coddling junket to Nicaragua for a leftist lawyers's group, and he spent two hours arguing Central American politics with me. He was a great, personable guy who was as easy to talk with as his and his wife's politics were noxious. It was an interview that ended up on my audition tape.

The best thing about Dawkins, though, was his infamous pledge to keep his ponytail until tax fairness was achieved. It lasted eighteen months, and he finally cut it off. The delicious irony? The ultraliberal crypto-Maoist Dawkins clipped off his 'tail because tax rates had fallen due to tax cuts and a surging economy - products of a free market that he and his wife have done their best to scuttle.