Chutzpah
• Trial lawyer Gary Baise is also the "lower taxes, limited government ... less spending" candidate for chairman of the Fairfax County (Va.) Board of Supervisors, but an October Washington Post investigation revealed that he had collected nearly $300,000 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2005 on an already profitable farm he owns in Illinois. At first, he appeared outraged at himself: "There's no way you can justify this for guys like me. This is what's wrong with government." Nonetheless, he said, he'll continue to take the subsidies. • The man who witnesses say robbed the Washington Mutual Bank in Miami Springs, in October was arrested outside the bank, but when he was brought back inside to be identified, he shouted at the employees (according to a Miami Herald report), "You ruined my life! I told you not to call (the) police!" • Authorities in Concord, N.H., arrested Frank Drake, 37, in October, after finding him watering one of his several marijuanaplant gardens alongside Interstate 89. Police seized 44 plants on the southbound side and 88 on the northbound side.