He might have bailed out of Danville, but he’s still getting rich off of Martinsville.<\/p>\n
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Remember Whitt Clement? He was a well-known Danville lawyer and served seven terms in the Virginia House of Delegates. He gave up that job for a run at Attorney General but finished third in a four-way primary. Mark Warner selected Clement as his Secretary of Transportation, so he packed up his family, moved to Richmond and never looked back at Southside VA. Clement did return to the area for a speech at the Institute in 2008, but that’s about it.<\/p>\n
But that hasn’t stopped ol’ Whitt from capitalizing on the region. He’s now a Richmond lawyer who specializes in “transportation infrastructure, government affairs and lobbying”. It seems that Martinsville needs those services from Whitt, as they’ve used his services before on the I-73 quagmire. On Thursday, the Henry County Board of Supervisors put another $18,000 into their “professional services” budget to pay Whitt’s law firm (and by default, Whitt) to help lobby for them.<\/p>\n
Whitt Clement may not remember where Southside VA is anymore but he sure knows where the checks come from, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He might have bailed out of Danville, but he’s still getting rich off of Martinsville.<\/p>\n
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