November 27, 2006
past Hoyer sighting
I don't get around much, like I used to... but I did recall seeing Steny Hoyer at an event, 2 summers ago.
I drove down to southern Maryland, one day, and Hoyer was there. I think he made a short speech.
I snapped a picture of him sitting next to the podium:
Below, I've tried to enlarge his figure, so you know I'm not making this up.
I figured his picture might come in handy, some day.
With him becoming the incoming Majority Whip in the House, there've been several newspaper articles profiling his career. They've jogged my memory of him.
I vaguely remember when he entered Congress, succeeding the stricken Gladys Noon Spellman in representing a Congressional district covering mostly Prince Georges county, at the time.
She'd fallen into a coma, a condition that I don't know if she never came out of.
(I recall reading somewhere a tasteless joke that arose at the time. It started off, something like this: 'what is the state vegetable of Maryland?...')
Her memory was honored when the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD-295) was named after her. (I think there's a sign in the divider, indicating this at the southern end, as you're entering it in PG county heading northward. But I don't know if there's one at the northern end.)
Posted by raacluse at November 27, 2006 03:43 PM