the winner of the first YOU GOT STONES

(in a good way) award for 2010 IS:

the entire FORMER staff of parker griffith. ms wheeler and all the rest, you SHINE

Entire staff quits after congressmember defects to GOP

By Daniel Tencer

Parker Griffith, the Democratic House representative from northern Alabama who last week announced he was jumping ship to the Republicans, has lost his entire staff.

Saying her old boss had made a "mistake," Griffith's now-former chief of staff, Sharon Wheeler, announced Monday that the House representative's entire congressional staff -- from press secretary to interns -- had resigned in protest of their boss's new political leanings.

Wheeler sent out a "sharply-worded" statement Monday announcing the staff's intentions and implying that Griffith had abandoned northern Alabama's long history of voting for Democrats, The Hill reports.

"Alabama's 5th district has deserved and has benefited from great Democratic conservative leadership since Reconstruction. And until now they had it,” The Hill quoted Wheeler as saying...

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