The Manchin-Marcos Connection?
THE WICKED WAG returns with the guest post below. (Please note: the Wicked Wag is getting up to speed on gazzblog posting. The gazz editor has posted this ArtAttack entry for the Wag — he is not the illustrious WW.)
The Wicked Wag is wondering: Are we sure those folks in the governor’s mansion aren’t named Marcos? Marble bathtubs? Gold highlighting on a skylight? $1,123 for a showerhead? (These details and ones below come from a June 8 Charleston Daily Mail story by business editor George Hohman.)
Administration spokeswoman Diane Holley is sure we’ve all experienced the same kind of cost overruns when we’ve rennovated our homes. The Marcoses, uh, Manchins are no doubt feeling that their minions would only want the best for them. Afterall, Mr. M. reportedly is the second most popular provincial ruler in the land. $22,564 for 10 humidifiers, all the fittings and labor to install them, to preserve the valuable antique furniture and art?
And here, the Wag thought the M’s preferred plastic. After all, the Governor decreed that the mansion’s second and third story windows be replaced with vinyl, despite an order from the Preservation Commission. The Wag was expecting all that dusty old stuff to be replaced with bright shiny new Naugahyde and Formica.
The Wag also notes that there’s no budget for the Capitol Building Commission. Hmmm. Perhaps the same invisible hand that’s at work on the State Museum is at work there, as well?
