Yesterday, Serious Materials Vice Chairman Paul Holland spoke at the White House as part of an event focusing on clean energy.  Serious, as you may remember, is the California-based company that recently purchased the former Republic Windows factory on Chicago's Goose Island and agreed to gradually rehire the 250 workers who were so abruptly laid-off last December.  But the former Republic employees aren't the only ones singing Serious' praises.  As Holland himself explained, the company -- which manufactures energy efficient windows and green building materials -- last week re-opened a shuttered windows factory in Vandergrift, PA. Watch his remarks:

I'd take this guy over Richard Gillman any day of the week.

(H/T Lynn Sweet)

UPDATE (7:56 pm): Holland also got a shout-out during President Obama's opening remarks at tonight's primetime press conference: "Yesterday, I met with a man whose company is reopening a factory outside of Pittsburgh that's rehiring workers to build some of the most energy efficient windows in the world."