The hypocrisy of Gordon Howie

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It’s not like this guy has a snowball chance in Hell of winning anyway, but with stuff like this coming up, makes you wonder;

Sen. Gordon Howie is behind by at least $56,863 in property taxes due for 2008 and 2009. That amount will jump to $86,915 if Howie can’t meet the next payment date by the end of October. And the amount is growing because of interest assessed to unpaid bills.

Then there is this;

Howie is the unofficial tea party candidate, running a campaign against taxes and spending. Last year, he was the prime sponsor of a bill that would have raised the state sales tax from 4 percent to 6 percent. The bill, which failed, called for using the increases in sales taxes to lower property taxes statewide, an effort that some questioned because of Howie’s profession.

It kinda sounds like Gordon is ‘conveniently’ against property taxes because he owes so much, but doesn’t have a problem with raising regressive taxes on the working poor. Some of my teabagger friends have asked me to support Gordon. Sorry, if there is one thing I can’t stand in a politician, it is hypocrisy.

Finally, the Pavilion makes a smart move

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I will have to hand it to the Pavilion on this one. While I was skeptical at first when Larry took over as interim president, I saw he was shaping up the finances rather quickly;

An effort that probably will erase a $300,000 deficit for the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science landed Larry Toll a new job.

The Pavilion announced Tuesday that Toll will become its president, six months after he was named interim president amid the departure of former president Gary Wood and what Pavilion leaders were calling a financial crisis.

Looks like the Pavilion didn’t need someone with an arts background after all, they needed someone who understands math.