Talk:George Mahon

I once took part in a series of interviews of various Congressmen which I'm told was eventually made into a documentary that I've never seen.

On the very slight chance anyone's impressed, don't be; half of the Congressmen who had agreed to speak with us cancelled at the last minute, including the one I'd been prepped to interview (who was Hank Aaron's brother-in-law, as a most irrelevant bit of trivia). Even if we had talked to him I wouldn't've had anything interesting to say. The rule was one friendly question to attempt to disarm the member followed by one not-so-friendly question. I was tasked with asking the friendly question, though I also wound up writing the not-so-friendly question because the person responsible for that didn't know what she was doing. It was creampuff stuff on a pet issue of a not-terribly-important congressman whose brother-in-law was three months away from losing the home run crown to Barry Bonds.

As it was, the AV people needed to refilm something from one of the interviews later in the day, so I drew the very important task of sitting in the congressmen's chair and looking congressional. I didn't actually pass myself off as a congressman, I think they just wanted someone whom the interviewers being refilmed could look at and talk to so repeating their lines would feel natural. Other than that I spent the whole time thinking dark thoughts about how unpleasant the ride to DC the night before had been and how annoying most of the other people involved in the project were.

Anyway, we did most of the interviews in the Cannon Building--Which is not named for Clarence Cannon, it was built in 1908 and he was first elected in 1922. We were in the Henry Hyde room, and I remembered Hyde from the impeachment of Clinton, and across the hall was the George Mahon room. I remembered Mahon from TL-191, and I knew he was a historical figure but I'd never heard of the real Mahon before. So all I could think was "Why would they name a room after a Freedomite?" Turtle Fan 22:48, June 10, 2010 (UTC)