Remembering David Keene

David Arthur Keene was a friend of mine. A political ally. The guy who taught me how to annoy geese, ducks, and doves by shooting in their general direction during the proper season. Soon after I left Massachusetts to go work in politics, David Keene was on my short list of people I knew I wanted to meet, work with, and hopefully gain their respect one day. He always had mine.

For the last 60 years — up until he passed earlier this week at the age of 80 — David Keene was a key leader in the movement that changed the course of our nation’s history.

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Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform, a taxpayer organization founded in 1985 at the request of President Ronald Reagan.

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David Arthur Keene was a friend of mine. A political ally. The guy who taught me how to annoy geese, ducks, and doves by shooting in their general direction during the proper season. Soon after I left Massachusetts to go work in politics, David Keene was on my short list of people I knew I wanted to meet, work with, and hopefully gain their respect one day. He always had mine.

For the last 60 years — up until he passed earlier this week at the age of 80 — David Keene was a key leader in the movement that changed the course of our nation’s history.