In the event that you have a life, you missed the Mark Johnson Show this morning on WDEV. It featured an interview with Boots Wardinski, a man who should be familiar to readers of this site. Boots, of course, is running (or should it be considered “walking”?) for Lt. Governor in Vermont.
During the live radio interview, Johnson asked Wardinski about our arrests in St, Johnsbury several years ago for disrupting a graduation speech being given by President George W. Bush’s Intelligence Czar, John Negroponte. Johnson wondered about how our act of civil disobedience might be considered rude because we interrupted his speech.
I prepared myself for a Boots answer that would sound something like this: “Rude? Yes, we were rude. But when you consider Negroponte’s involvement with war and foreign policy decisions that have killed tens of thousands of people, I think a little ‘rudeness’ is in order.”
That would have been nice. And effective. But, instead, Boots served up this to Johnson’s radio audience:
“Well, technically, I didn’t interrupt Negroponte’s speech,” Boots chirped – and here comes the really good part (if, of course, you consider throwing a friend under the bus as a “good” part): “It was Michael who interrupted Negroponte!”
I thought: Boots is apparently having some ‘Nam flashbacks or something because he’s not making sense. Oh wait, he didn’t serve in ‘Nam. Nope, he was in Camp Lameass writing hippie-dippie shit about peace and all. This from the son of a General!
He must have forgotten that the case against us was thrown out in a unanimous decision by the Vermont Supreme Court, I thought. But, that wasn’t it either, because Boots went on to describe the triumphant ending to our case.
Nope. Boots just simply threw me under the bus. And for what? More votes, obviously.
Which is to say: Friends, don’t let friends get involved in politics. Because it only makes dirty, stinking liars out of them.
Take that, Boots.
P.S. Of course, a raise in my salary as your campaign manager could quickly clear up the matters mentioned above.
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