Oh, I was only off by a couple years……

I hate to be the one who says “I told you so,” but…………..

Four years ago, I told you this lady was a jackass….

http://wvpoliticalsweatbox.wordpress.com/2006/08/11/whats-worse-than-being-greedy-being-ungrateful-and-greedy/

And now?  She’s such a great manager, that she let one of her underlings embezzle a bunch of your tax dollars.  And now she’s on “paid” administrative leave.  I notice they don’t call her Patty Bradley PITROLO (remember she was married to Jim Pitrolo, one of Manchin’s lackeys).  I wonder if she’s still married to him?  If not, maybe her protection is no longer there. 

http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/201111160049

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.  Remember, she was already convicted while in the legislature for being a crook.  I guess that she’s now somewhere in the vicinity of more theivery, should really surprise nobody. 

And when all that stuff went down 4 years ago, Danny Jones was front and center telling everyone how great she was and how the CVB would be lucky to get her. 

Yeah, we are lucky alright.  Lucky she only let her employee steal a quarter million dollars of your tax money before she got caught.  She sure is worth every penny we are paying her.   

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>Good Time Furlip.

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Evidently, our very own Chicago Furlip, right wing radio ranter non-extraordinaire, Michael Agnello, got busted for DUI over the weekend. Evidently, Good Time Furlip thinks it’s ok to down a few, then get behind his car and swerve all over the interstate.

I didn’t hear his first admission, when he started the show at 3pm talking about his latest dealings with the criminal justice system. But, I started listening to his show after being notified of the Gazette story you can see by clicking on the title of this thread. However, the callers I heard, all called in to somewhat “support” him, including Wanda Carney. Of course, Wanda’s former employer, Mike Clifford, is his attorney (also a frequent guest on Agnello’s show). Eventually, Agnello repeated his statement he made earlier in the show, and basically said he’s “going through the process” and then began talking about how he’s done this and that in the community and with his show. And of course he follows that up with a “But I’m not making excuses.” Then why mention it? Either you blew a .17, TWICE, indicating a blood alcohol content over twice the legal limit (.08) or you did not. There is nothing left to discuss, especially not the dealings you have had with other public figures dealing with DUI charges in the past. What does that have to do with his recent behavior? I’ll tell you. It has NOTHING to do with his DECISION to drive drunk, and potentially kill any number of innocent drivers on the interstate.

One caller in particular that was strange, said to Agnello, “It happens to the best of us?” Really? The “best” of us blow 2x the legal limit? I’d like to consider myself one of the “best of us,” and I have never been busted for DUI. So how exactly does it “happen to the best of us?” This wasn’t some “accident” or some freak thing. He got drunk, evidently stating he “had a few drinks,” and then decided to get behind the wheel, making himself a danger to everyone on the road.

Of course, the fact that Prosecuting Attorney Mark Plants is a frequent visitor to Agnello’s show (and also a republican right winger nutjob like Furlip), is a bit troubling. It will be interesting to see how Agnello is dealt with by the Prosecutor’s Office, considering his buddy Plants is in charge of the office that will be handling the case.

Also somewhat troubling, evidently Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper, on his weekly appearance on 58 Live made some comment to the effect of “Don’t worry about this Mike. You have lots of friends.” Now, this could be taken that he’s got lots of friends who will support him if he needs anything, while the criminal justice system doles out the same treatment you or I would get in the same situation. Or it could also mean that his “friends” might help make this thing go away, with some kind of treatment that average Joe Schmoes don’t get, because we aren’t a talk radio host. Maybe Carper was referring to Plants as a “friend” of Agnello like I mentioned above? In West Virginia, this would not surprise me one bit.

If you spend three hours a day, polluting the airwaves by railing against everyone who disagrees with you and your holier than thou, sanctimonious, ignorant warped little view of the world, when stuff like this happens, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for you.

When you talk the talk, you better walk the walk. Or drive the sober drive.

>Listen up, you anonymous commenters on the Sprouse posts.

>I’m getting tired of seeing 20 “anonymous” posts all saying the same things. So, because I can see your ip addresses and know that there’s only about 4 or 5 of you, I have to start making rules, because you can’t be trusted to act like semi-adults.

First, you can start by using a fucking name, so there’s not 50 straight messages by “anonymous,” all saying basically the same thing cluttering up my email box.

Second, while Slick Vic is a straight up slimeball, if you are going to post crap about him or his current relationship status, at least put something substantive in it. And just in case you are unsure, “She’s a bitch” or “She’s a skank” or “She’s a phony” or whatever, is not the least bit substantive. We know those things already. You’ve told us that umpteen times. Plus, it’s Vic we are talking about. It only makes sense. If you don’t have something useful to post, save the bandwith and go look at porn or play online poker or something.

Lastly, you don’t have to go back and post basically the same message on EVERY Vic post I ever made, dating back 5 years. Nobody is reading those posts, but you.

>I hear a rumble.

>It might be time for a new post in the very near future.

>Distress

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>Are they finally turning on each other?

>Ok, I can’t let this go any longer. The whole “Heathergate,” Heather Bresch, Manchin, WVU EMBA scandal would be something that the ol’ Binger would normally be commenting on daily. But I just can’t devote as much time to this as I would like. But, for a quick primer, for those who’ve been living under a rock for the past month here’s a quick “get up to speed” lesson. Just go over to the Fifth Column, and read the posts and comments there over the last month or so.

That will give you all the details, and links to those details, to get a good idea of what’s going on.

But, as this whole thing is sort of quieting down, in that the “panel” has been picked and are going to start their investigation soon, there are going to be little dribs and drabs, slipping out. Like in today’s Daily Athenaeum, where the cracks in the already shaky WVU official position, start to get a little bigger.

Sears, the Business school dean (who did a hilarious “ants in my pants” impression on Bray Cary’s Decision Makers show a couple weeks ago), says he resolved this degree discrepancy, based on information given to him by Professor Paul Speaker, and EMBA Program Director, Gerald Blakely.

Now, it appears, that Sears had his mind already made up, when he asked Blakely for the information. In the DA article, Blakely said he provided a summary of the evidence, but it wasn’t all developed in his office, to Dean Sears regarding the information on Bresch’s coursework. “It was prepared to support his (Sears’) conclusion that she had met all the requirements,” Blakely said.

Even more interesting, Speaker said he never spoke to Sears about this. Again, after Sears referred to “consulting with and relying on” evidence from Speaker, AND Blakely.

Blakely quickly denies any part of making the call Bresch earned her MBA, on behalf of himself AND his department. He appears to lay the “call” at Sears, and seems to assert Sears did it, with evidence that was questionable.

Blakely also says, “My belief is that the University panelist is the proper place to find out what’s gone on.” To find out “whether Dean Sears is right or wrong or what’s gone on.”

Could they finally be turning on each other? Who’s going to start blaming who? Who’s going to blow the whistle, to save their own skin?

This is how things unravel. This is how the original “gate” snowballed, and became a part of our lexicon.

We can only hope the same result happens here.

We deserve it.

WVU deserves it.

And most importantly, legitimate WVU graduates deserve it.