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Pork Chop goes to the Derby
Washington Monthly, March, 2005 by Charles Peters
I was recently reminded that some color left my life when I moved to Washington from my native West Virginia. The state's former assistant school superintendent, G.A. McClung, has just been indicted, according to the Charleston Gazette, for allegedly awarding two and a half million dollars in contracts to Phillip "Pork Chop" Booth.
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It seemed that Booth had not only forgiven loans to McClung, but had treated him to tickets to the Kentucky Derby and a Bahamas cruise for two. Pork Chop made a profit of over $400,000. Unfortunately however, he now faces the possibility of 15 years as a guest of the state penitentiary.
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