On February 12, 1968, sanitation workers in the city of Memphis decided to walk off the job.  This decision set events in motion that have shaped our history every since.  

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I find it almost comical that the media is all a quiver about the fact that the second in command that Nancy Pelosi wanted, Representative John Murtha, was defeated and the front runner, Representative Steny Hoyer, was elected. The New York Times wrote today, "Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House."  

This is a story about the known and the unknown.  It is story about the rise to and fall from success.  It is a story about survivors.

Let's start with Richard Hatch.  Mr. Hatch was the first winner on the American television show "Survivor" back in the year 2000.  He was not exactly popular with viewers, but with his guile, resourcefulness, and alliance-making he won the "title" in the first season of "Survivor."  Today, Richard Hatch is under I.R.S. scrutiny for not paying taxes on his million-dollar "Survivor" prize. (Update: Mr. Hatch has now been convicted of tax evasion.)

Tom DeLay has an older, more-storied, tale.  But, Congressman DeLay's story begins about a decade earlier with two other congressmen.