Reuters has an interview with the Maverick family (from which the word maverick entered our lexicon), who have come out with a statement saying McCain "is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase,” the Times reported Terrellita Maverick (the 82 years old scion of the Maverick clan), as saying. “It’s just incredible - the nerve! - to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”
A little Maverick family history from the article:
The family’s name crept into the language for Samuel Augustus Maverick, a rancher who became known for not branding his cattle in the 1800s. Any unbranded cows found out on the range were simply known as “Maverick’s.”
Ranching aside, the Times reported that members of the Maverick family also have a long history championing often unpopular civil libertarian causes — from the rights of indentured servants in long ago New England to defending the cause of “draft resisters, atheists and others scorned by society” more recently in Texas.
1 comments:
Interesting the way Maverick has been co-opted over the years.
You'd almost believe McCain was the original one.
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