A bit too obvious.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - West Virginia Educational Association - Brief article

The job of general counsel of the West Virginia Educational Association, the teacher's union in my home state, recently became vacant. "We had an opening and saw this as an opportunity to hire a highly qualified, well-respected attorney," explained the association's president. He was describing Rick Thompson, who just happens to also be the speaker of the House of Delegates, the lower house of the state legislature. Even in West Virginia, where conflicts of interest tend to be...