WVHotline

I am starting a new feature at my site. All you have to do is subscribe via email and every time I write a book review, you will be automatically entered to win the book!

It's free and I pay shipping.

Today's book review is Black in the White House by Ron Christie. Christie served as deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney for domestic policy, from January 2001 to March 2002. He was then appointed in 2002 to serve as special assistant to President George W. Bush for USA Freedom Corps and was acting director of that executive office when he left in March 2004.

My bookshelves are full of memoirs from past White House staffers. Each of them follows the same route, defending the policies of their era and dealing in tedious details that hardly seem relevant today.

It seems from a recent Phil Kabler Sunday Gazette-Mail article referencing a recent user blog post there is some confusion as to the owners of WVHotline.com and the attribution of its content. Neither Chris Marr nor Chad Robinson own or operate WVHotline, though they are registered users and subscribers to the GAITS Tracker service along with a growing number of other WV lobbyists and associations.

Actually being the owner myself I should probably know best.

I am a former employee of the state capitol for 7+ years. WVHotline.com is my creation to be West Virginia's premier interactive political news and community website. To give host to the GAITS Legislative Tracking service and the e-Lobby Grassroots Management tool. Also to be a platform to keep the citizens of West Virginia informed and invovled in the political course and discourse in the state. To that end each registered user is provided with a free blog as a soap box to voice their thoughts, concerns, opinions and interact with each other and their elected officials (all in accordance with the UAP and SDG agreements). There is also daily WV related news feeds and a myriad of additional politically related information with even more features in the coming weeks.