I do, of course, have a story about Beau Biden....think I might have told before.
It was in 2004 or thereabouts, cause I still smoked.
I was covering the GOP table at the Delaware state fair and don’t you know along comes Beau Biden. The guy I’m volunteering with tells me who it is. Beau (this was BEFORE his strokes) heads outside right as I was doing the same, me in pursuit of a smoke.
To my surprise I find myself sharing a cigarette with who? BEAU BIDEN!
Seriously folks, this was a very funny guy. No I didn’t have a camera or recorder...I don’t think I even had a cell phone then. But Beau’s telling me funny stories about his Dad...and me without even a pen and paper.
We ended up sharing political stories and such for over an hour...hand to God.
It was neat. If I see him I’ll tell him it’s great to see him again.
Oh, and another story....I go to get a mammogram...new medical place opened up in Georgetown, of course. “It’s on Biden Way,” the lady on the phone tells me.
Serious? Biden Way?
So I got get the mammorgram and something called a bone density test. I complain to everyone in the joint about it being on Biden way...who the hell came up with that?
Because TAXPAYERS paid for that road, NOT any Biden of any stripe. This sort of thing is looked down upon of late.
ALL of those people told me how they hated that name, how they just used the name of the street behind the parking lot as they hated Biden way so much.
How about these politicos....thinking they should have streets named after THEM?
Pat,
Be thankful it’s just 1 street.
King County is the county that includes Seattle and some of the surrounding cities and towns. For a long time it was just King County and the logo was a crown, but then everything had to be changed to ML King. We have a street (through central Seattle) that was changed to ML King Way - - I’m fine with that. But, to change an entire county’s reference to which “King” as well as the logo (more recent one has ML King’s face on it). This is no small county - 13th most populous in the US and most populous in WA State. I’m saying this not as necessarily a fan of the original VP King, but they decided to change the reference after many years of history - the Washington territory was created in 1853 and became a state in 1889.
From Wikipedia:
The county was named after William Rufus King who was Vice-President when the Washington Territory was created. In 1986 a motion was introduced by Ron Sims (a black Democrat from Seattle), and Bruce Laing (a white Republican from suburban Renton) to change the namesake to Martin Luther King, Jr.[3] No public votes or hearings were taken on the change.[4]
On February 24, 1986, the King County Council passed Council Motion 6461 five votes to four setting forth the historical basis for the renaming of King County in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.[5] Because only the state can charter counties, this change was not made official until April 19, 2005, when Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed Senate Bill 5332 into law.
Council member Larry Gossett shepherded the County Council to a public vote on February 27, 2006 to change the county’s logo from a royal crown to an image of King.[6] On March 12, 2007, the new logo was unveiled.[7]
Martin Luther King Jr. visited King County for two days in November 1961