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Monday, September 05, 2011
Beans, Spilled
A Republican staffer on Capitol Hill (he served 16 years as a professional staff member on the Republican side of both the House and Senate Budget Committees) sees quite clearly what the Corporate Coup has done to both political parties. He retired in June after 28 total years as a Congressional staffer, and he goes on the record about what he has seen in an important piece of writing. Virginia Foxx gets a mention, along with Patrick McHenry.
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.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
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