Labor & Employment Law

W.Va. Senate Candidate Raese Gets His Victorian Conservatory

By Tula Connell

Proving once again that he is a man of the West Virginia people, Senate Republican candidate John Raese just got approval by the Palm Beach Architecture Commission to build a 100-square-foot conservatory. That’s Palm Beach, FLORIDA, the site of Raese’s mansion, replete with its pink marble driveway. Raese is running against West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who unlike Raese, lives full-time in West Virgina.

But surely, working women and men in West Virginia?whom Raese has typecast as “hicky blue-collar types,” can sympathize. The Victorian conservatory replaces a giant dollhouse, which even the tens of thousands of the state’s voters who are struggling to find a job or save their home from foreclosure know would look so gauche alongside the pink marble driveway and two limos.

And as Raese’s architect explained, a new eugenia hedge and eight palm trees would screen the new building from a distressed neighbor to his south.

How thoughtful.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).