2008.12.29
R.J. Kirk: Big bucks and moonshine?
A Washington Post story about Terry McAuliffe’s undeclared campaign for governor prominently mentions R.J. Kirk, Southwest Virginia’s only billionaire. Kirk is a Radford University graduate and a member of the university’s board of visitors, but that didn’t make it into the story.
Kirk’s role was more as a source of money McAuliffe would like to tap and as someone who offered the apparent candidate apparently illegal whiskey.
The Post talks of McAuliffe’s “courtship of Kirk” and says the two got along so well during their three-hour lunch that “Kirk broke out the moonshine.”
"I wanted him to know where he was," the Post quoted Kirk.
Of course, Kirk’s Pulaski County estate is a couple of counties away from the section of Virginia that claims to be the world’s moonshine capital.
The Post says the billionaire is backing McAuliffe, by the way.
-- Tim Thornton
Will they now also reduce PK's compensation?
Obama reveals executive pay limits
Pledging to take "the air out of golden parachutes," President Obama announced today that executives of companies receiving federal bailout money will have their pay capped at $500,000. "For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste -- it's a bad strategy -- and I will not tolerate it," Obama said.
Comment by Mark — February 4, 2009 @ 11:52 am