More of the Same

The West Virginia governor-appointed replacement for the recently deceased Senator Byrd is Carte Goodwin, a young Democrat lawyer. I guess we don't have enough of those running around the nation's capital. This is the interesting part that I wanted to share with you, though -- a rumor, gossip, in the comments after the CNN.com news story...

"Carte Goodwin's late father, Stephen P. Goodwin, happened to be chairman of the West Virginia University Board of Governor's during the 2007-2008 school year when the Pittsburgh Post Gazette revealed that Governor Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, was awarded a M.B.A. degree despite being 26 credits short. In the fallout from what the Post Gazette called a "seriously flawed' decision fraught with favoritism", WVU President Michael Garrison, the provost, the Dean of the College of Business & Economics, and chairmen Goodwin resigned. The connections should not be ignored."

If any truth is found in this, I will be disgusted. I am sooooooo tired of this kind of politics. The deals, back-scratching, tit for tat. It feels like nobody cares about us, the little people, any more. We just get the bill. I wonder what new crap I'm going to be buying for West Virginia under the new Goodwin/Manchin regime.