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Article: Mark Plotkin Whigs Out; In Colonial Williamsburg, a D.C. radical searches for an old-fashioned ally.
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- The Washington Post
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- August 2, 2000
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We asked radio commentator Mark Plotkin, motormouth champion of
D.C. voting rights, to take his trademark zeal on a trip to one place
where they still love a revolutionary--Colonial Williamsburg.
Mark Plotkin doesn't do tea. "I'm not sure this place is a good
fit for me," says Plotkin, uncharacteristically soft-spoken in the
elegant East Room of the Williamsburg Inn. All around him, nice
people in resort wear murmur in small groups. Under a massive brass
chandelier, a woman plinks softly on a piano. Plotkin sips from a
petite china cup; the plate balanced on his knee is piled high with
more cookies than seems quite polite. "It's too quiet."
Finally he pops up and strides over to the one ...