#1- This video comes from a post in February titled "Where the Hogan and Jankowski stories intersect". The post is reprinted below. This series on Clarke Hogan still has Richmond buzzing and showed how blogs can shake up politics as usual in Richmond.
"We've established over the last couple days the ties between Chris Jankowski and the Speaker of the House, Bill Howell. We have also established Clarke Hogan's ties to the Speaker as the "chosen one" that has moved past more senior members because of his popularity with the Speaker. So now, let's see what happens when Jankowski's client needs a sweetheart deal in the state budget.
Honeywell is a Virginia company that produces Caprolactam at its Hopewell plant, which is a toxic chemical. As with almost any plant that produces a toxin, they have major environmental issues. Here's one example from the "Federal Government Misconduct Database" from this same plant.
As you can imagine, Honeywell is not real popular in the surrounding community. In fact, sources in Hopewell tell me that at the Hopewell Water Treatment Facility, one half of the entire clean up needed with incoming water comes from Honeywell. Wow, that alone is something that needs to be looked into, as I couldn't find anything online to verify this.
So someone (who didn't put their name on it) put in a amendment to the budget to give Honeywell $5,000,000 to install clean up equipment at their facility instead of at the Wastewater facility. The locals were outraged- WHY would anyone want this new equipment only used at Honeywell instead of for the entire community. (Hint: Honeywell would so they wouldn't be getting blamed for so much pollution).
The outraged community contacted their local Delegates, Riley Ingram (member of Appropriations) and Joe Morrissey. Neither one knew about this amendment. Enraged, Ingram exploded at the Republican Caucus meeting, screaming at the member who slipped this in without their name on it. The caucus decided this would be removed from the budget.
And then the fun on the floor begins... "
The best part of this was how you can see reporters from the Washington Post and Richmond Times-Dispatch over Hogan's shoulder as he speaks, and they still missed the story!!! No wonder old media is dying- they are missing stories under their nose. This time, literally.
It's a good thing that the "Uterus Police" were on duty the day that AIAW was born.
Otherwise, she would have been aborted, and our ears would not today be filled with her selfish sanctimonious bullshit.
Posted by: Grapes | January 01, 2009 at 01:03 AM
The top political moment in 2008 was our leading Proposition 8 to a resounding victory.
To this day, the Castro Street and Hollywood elitists have not stopped gnashing their teeth.
Posted by: t | January 01, 2009 at 01:11 AM
The top political moment in 2009 will be our successful impeachment drive to defrock the four San Francisco liberals currently infesting the California Supreme Court.
Posted by: t | January 01, 2009 at 01:14 AM
Is anyone else reminded of Dan White, Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone's assassin, when they see and hear Clark Hogan?
Posted by: AnonDem | January 01, 2009 at 11:47 AM
1 - Nobody in Richmond is "buzzing" about this issue, despite Ben Tribbett's pathetic attempts to show how important he is.
2 - The locals were not outraged. Tip for Ben -- the less you have to make shit up, the more credible you'll be.
3 - The actual journalists who were there ignored this issue because it's boring, and nobody but Ben and the disbarred embarrassment to the General Assembly, Joe Morrissey, gives a shit about it.
Posted by: | January 02, 2009 at 03:40 PM
Seems like Riley Ingram was pretty interested in it...
Posted by: Larry Sabato's Hairpiece | January 04, 2009 at 04:33 PM