WataugaWatch: Chunder

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Chunder

On her website, Madam Virginia Foxx takes credit for securing $1 million in federal funding for the Statesville Regional Airport.

She doesn't mention that she actually voted AGAINST the appropriations bill that contains the federal funding for the Statesville Regional Airport.

She needs to rewrite her press release:

I want to thank the Democrats in the U.S. Congress for making it possible for me to brag about getting money for my district that I actually worked against. Without them, I'd have precious little to show, other than a teapot museum.

What would she have said if her side actually prevailed in that vote?

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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