Thursday, February 10, 2011

Not heard the last about Williams' plasma TV

There's an interesting editorial in today's Herald-Leader:

As part of a $639,000 renovation of several state senators' Capitol Annex offices in 2006, Senate President David Williams' office was equipped with a $17,000 entertainment center featuring a 60-inch plasma TV screen.

The screen remained in Williams' office until this General Assembly session when it was moved to the Senate chambers in the Capitol to serve as one of two screens displaying bill status and senators' votes.

...Strangely enough, though, the need for the screen to serve such a purpose never occurred until after Williams decided to run for governor. But as much as Williams might want to defuse a potentially damaging issue with this TV screen switcheroo, the reality of modern political campaigns strongly suggests we're going to hear a lot about the first screen in coming months.