My mother and Joe Manchin

From a news release we received today:

West Virginia University will announce the five winners of WVU’s top scholarship during a special ceremony. The students, who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievements and leadership potential, will receive the WVU Foundation Scholarship, valued at over $65,000.

WHO: Gov. Joe Manchin, WVU President Mike Garrison, WVU Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer R. Wayne King, Foundation Scholars and their families

WHEN: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 6

WHERE: Governor’s Reception Room, State Capitol, Charleston

So Manchin is not distancing himself from Garrison. He's embracing him. It doesn't look or sound like Garrison's job is in any danger.

Am I the only person to think Manchin had so much promise when he came into office, and he is bound and determined to burn a lot of it off to save Garrison?

I understand the part about being his daughter's friend and the part about being the former lobbying for his biggest financial backer, but sometime Manchin is going to have to look out for his own interests and throw Garrison under the bus.

Yes, Manchin wants to cast his daughter as the victim in this, but I keep remembering two things my mother said.

First was when one of my brothers made his monthly call from the county jail after being arrested in a bar fight. She told him he could stay in jail because she wasn't going to bail him out anymore.

Second was when I was about 12 years old and running for my life. She asked me why. I said this big guy was chasing me so he could beat me up. She asked me why and I told her. She said I should keep on running, because if I had pulled that trick on her, she would beat me up, too.

After remembering those incidents, I wonder what my mother would have said to me if I had been caught with a fake MBA.