By Patric Hedlund

You may remember State Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy relishing his rides through our Lilac Festival and Fiesta Days Parades, waving joyfully from the back of a convertible.

He showed his skill as a politician then, calling out the names of people along the Mountain Communities parade routes as if he was our best friend.

As a student at Cal State, Bakersfield, McCarthy interned with his mentor Bill Thomas, a 28-year member of the U.S. House of Representatives who became the powerful Chairman of the…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Kevin McCarthy was Majority Whip when the publisher and editor of The Mountain Enterprise interviewed him in his capital hill office in the final hours of the countdown to the march off the 2012 ‘fiscal cliff.’

John Boehner (right) announced his resignation as Speaker of the House the day after Pope Francis’ speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

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This is part of the October 2, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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