Is this the SAME "Harry Whittington" that Cheney shot???

[file83]

Article from The Statesman:

Lawyer wins another round in eminent domain case against the city

Little Guys who take on the government rarely win, unless the Little Guy is a guy like Harry Whittington.

Whittington, an Austin lawyer, is very rich, very stubborn and very patient — qualities that come in handy if, like him, you're waging a long legal battle against the city.

<snip>

"This," Whittington, 78, said of his lawsuit, "shows how the judicial system should work if you stay with it."

<snip>

Now from the AP article about the "Harry Whittington" that was shot by Cheney, is also 78 from that area:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot
and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his
spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney
sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the
Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine
Armstrong.

Now, if this is the same guy, wouldn't that be a very "peculiar" hunting accident? I'm just sayin'...

UPDATE:
Apparently, this is the same guy. Pajama-clad bloggers, start your engines. Let's dig up more dirt on the ties from Cheney to Whittington. Is there motive?

[Libby2]

1. Sure sounds like the same guy.

[MADem]

2. That's him!!!!

Gee, the people of ST Michaels ought to petition to take ole Five Deferment's new mansion, and turn it into a school for unwed girls, or something...

Maybe they can hire this Whittington fellah, assuming he recovers...!

[ET Awful]

3. Hmmmm. . . .

What he couldn't find anyone to hire to carry out the hit?

[rodeodance]

4. if you have money-this sentence should add.

....."This," Whittington, 78, said of his lawsuit, "shows how the judicial system should work if you stay with it."

[napi21]

5. Same age, same name and reports said the guy shot was an

attorney from Austin. That's good enough for me! I'd say it's one and the same!

[file83]

6. So basically, Cheney shot an attorney, that opposes EMINENT DOMAIN...

talk about a Freudian slip!

[Cocoa]

7. little guy?

how is he a "little guy" if he owns an entire downtown block of the capital city of Texas?

[file83]

9. Exactly, how "little" can he be if he's hunting with Dick Cheney?

Something wierd about this whole situation. There has got to be more.

[cobaindrain]

8. I hope he sues the pants off of Cheney

[file83]

10. Gross - I don't want to see that!!! (a pantsless Cheney that is)

[mitchum]

13. NO! The settlement would probably come out of the public treasury!

these corrupt sonsofbitches use the public dime for ALL of their follies

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Holy shit this guy is connected to Funeral Gate

HOME: SEPTEMBER 3, 1999: NEWS: BURYING THE PAST
Burying the Past
Funeral Board Resurrected




It's been a tumultuous week for the Texas Funeral Service Commission. On Monday, Travis County District Court Judge John Dietz ruled that Gov. George W. Bush won't have to testify in Eliza May's whistle-blower lawsuit against the agency. On Tuesday, the old TFSC board was dismissed. On Wednesday, the new board, headed by Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, took over the struggling agency. The moves are the latest developments in the ongoing drama surrounding the funeral regulatory agency. And while the new board should bring some stability to the tiny agency, the biggest development in the funeral scandal came when Dietz, a Democrat, ruled that lawyers for May, the former executive director of the TFSC, did not prove that Bush has "unique and superior knowledge" of the facts in the case. The ruling came after an all-day hearing rich in hyperbole.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:idhP7UMYjyIJ:www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/1999-09-03/pols_feature3.html+Harry+Whittington+bush&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

[file83]

12. Hey, good catch - but WTF was funeral gate - you know more about it?

We may have a motive, is that what you are saying?

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Here's my thread in GD -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x395540

No motive, but we can make sure we let people know about this guy's connections to a scandal that Bush would rather not be reminded of right now.

[catnhatnh]

14. Yeah....

didn't you get the memo about them being joined at the roots???