Joy Doss, former student of Fred Armstrong, has put together an excellent site to keep people informed about news and links about Fred’s termination.

If you haven’t already sent a letter to Governor Manchin expressing your outrage, Joy created a page at CitizenSpeak that allows you to do this electronically: http://citizenspeak.org/node/1169

Great job, Joy!

Fred wrote to me the other day, and I gave my thoughts regarding Governor Joe Manchin:

Fred, you are in the truest sense of the word a public servant because you unselfishly serve the needs of the public. However, there are other public servants who are clearly serving their own needs and behave as though they are rulers.

Obviously, this needs to change. Manchin is going to be interested in saving face, because it is clear to me that this event has real political implications for him, unless he is too arrogant to recognize this reality. In fact, he didn’t come to speak at a scheduled League of Woman Voters “meet your candidate” forum in Morgantown for the 2004 election. He was on the roster, but provided no indication of the reason why he didn’t come, or any apologies. He was so confident that he was going to win, that he didn’t see any need to speak to the inhabitants of the fastest growing, and economically viable city in WV. I didn’t vote for Manchin, but I did vote for Jesse Johnson of the Mountain Party because I was able to hear him in person, and his platform made a great deal of sense in comparison to Manchin, who was mysteriously missing. However, Manchin did have a very expensive election celebration in the Radisson in Morgantown!

Governor Manchin are you reading this?

In other news, there’s going to be a protest tomorrow at the Cultural Center, read this article in the Charleston Gazette.