More Gilmore?-the funniest/saddest thing you will read today LOL

[underpants]

What a great short piece. The "Shark Task Force" :rofl: I had forgotten all about that one.

http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=15606

It’s starting to look like the Flat-Earth Republicans in Virginia may get their wish. At this writing, former Gov. Jim Gilmore appears to be the GOP’s front-runner to win the nomination to run for the U.S. Senate seat of John Warner, who is retiring at the end of his fifth term in the U.S. Senate. That would likely pit Gilmore against former Gov. Mark Warner.


Now, let’s hop aboard the Wayback Machine and examine some of that baggage that would come with a Gilmore campaign:

• Gilmore made enemies who won’t forget his moves in the well-publicized Hugh Finn “death-with-dignity” case. Intervening as he did, to play politics in the painful decision to pull the plug, which had been made by a brain-dead man’s spouse, was disgusting.

• Among Gilmore’s more puzzling moves was his decision to take on chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. By accepting that job he broke a longstanding custom in the Old Dominion — sitting governors do not play an obvious role in national politics. Gilmore wasn’t national chairman of the Grand Old Party long enough to do much more than be remembered for being fired and, of course, denying that he was fired.

• So, with some justification, Gov. Gilmore is remembered for his stubbornness and his awkwardness. Yet his most absurd move of all — the Shark Task Force — should hardly be forgotten. With four months remaining in his term in office, and his approval ratings plummeting, came news of a pair of shark attacks off the nearby coast. Gilmore sprang into action, creating a task force to examine the issue.

Two months after its launch, former attorney general Mark Earley lost the race to replace Gilmore, handing the keys to the Governor’s Mansion to Mark Warner.

The Gilmore Shark Task Force’s findings were made public Dec. 14, 2001. The first sentence: “In more than 390 years since the English settlement of Virginia there had never been a fatal shark attack in Virginia waters until September 1, 2001 when a 10-year old boy named David Peltier was attacked near the Little Island Fishing Pier at Sandbridge.”

The report went on to say that sharks usually live in the ocean and every now and then one of them bites a person who is also in the ocean.

[angstlessk]

1. wonder how much he paid of tax payer money for the study that determined

sharks usually (???) live in the ocean and if you do not go in the ocean you will not be bit by a shark (did they mention where they are when not in their "usual" place? (did they discover anyplace EXCEPT the ocean where someone was bit by a shark?)) so many questions left unanswered by that commission!!!11!

[rateyes]

2. There are sharks in coastal waters that are not "oceans"...

the Chesapeake Bay, for example. However, that was a lot of money to spend to study and state the obvious.