Greetings from WOTP (way outside the perimeter)
Having written my first post last Friday and my introduction this week, you can assume IrishPat will be somewhat unconventional. Perhaps it is the clean mountain air up here in Blairsville or maybe I’m just a grumpy old white male who apparently is responsible for the world’s problems not directly attributable to George Bush.
My given name is Patrick Terence Michael Malone and I came to Georgia in 1976 as a corporate vagabond. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, politics has always been an interest, initially as a Democrat. After getting my first real paycheck I became a Republican and have had the honor of volunteering for GOP campaigns on the national, state and local level in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and now Georgia.
I am the semi-retired Senior Partner of The PAR Group, an international leadership development firm based in Tucker, and currently serve as the Interim President/CEO of the Blairsville-Union County Chamber of Commerce. Additionally I am the host of “This Week in Blairsville”, a weekend radio show on Newstalk 95.1 WJRB and a sales leadership columnist in a couple of magazines and the co-author of the business book “Cracking the Code to Leadership”.
While the GA-9 and the HD-8 are both considered among the most conservative, I consider myself a conservative pragmatist which means I am often labeled a RINO. I look forward to contributing to GeorgiaPol.com and operate under the belief that old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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IrishPat
Patrick Malone is a Business Advisor and Leadership Mentor headquartered in Blairsville, Georgia. He co-hosts Mountain Daybreak and Mountain Mornings, weekday news programs, and hosts This Week in Blairsville a weekend program on WJUL/WJRB. He is a mentor in Union County High School, serves on his church council and writes a monthly column on leadership in the animal healthcare industry.
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Welcome aboard. Glad to see another GA9’er in here. My son is also Patrick, named after my grandfather that was born and raised in Ireland.
Welcome! Both of my parents grew up in the “Rust Belt” in a couple of small towns in the Youngstown/Salem area (Mom’s family moved there from a small town SE of Pittsburgh when she was about 5), but the last 3 of us 5 kids (#4 here) were born’n’raised in South Georgia following my Dad’s move with Rockwell in ’56. However, I still feel a bond (pi) with those others who have a lil’ extra Fe2O3 in their blood. 😉
Glad to have you contributing here, Mr. Malone. I’ve read you elsewhere and have usually liked what you’ve written.
“old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.” Sounds like something Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham would have said!
Kathy Bates’ character, Evelyn Couch, in Fried Green Tomatoes, I believe.