Seattle Mayor Declares: "Mission Accomplished" (Part 3 in a series)
Lands Picture on Time Magazine in a "Big and Tall" Armani Suit
As the April 4th cover of Time Magazine warned Seattle-Lites to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried", it's Special Report on Global Warming glowingly profiled Mayor Greg Nickels for his leadership among US cities in hunting down insurgent greenhouse gases.
For Seattle that translates to taking 148,000 cars off the road.
To accomplish this feat Nickels plans to raise highway tolls and parking taxes to excrucitating levels for Seattle-Lites in a painful two-fold strategy being referred to locally as 'Schlock and Awe'.
So far, 218 other mayors have eagerly joined with Nickels, signing on to what many of them are calling a "Coalition of The Cool" in the hopes that they too might end up with a line item in their own city budget just like Greg's... namely, $80,000 a year for "personal entertaining". (The figure reported last week in the Seattle Weekly)
One mayor, who wished to remain anonymous told Michael C. "Greg really opened our eyes with those intelligence reports he had linking the existence of questionable 'Warmings of Minor Degrees' to the ability to create a serious good-times-rock-and-roll slush fund."
When questioned about the specifics of his plan for winning the war on greenhouse gases, along with the huge costs that would be incured, Nickels told reporters, "Details, details fellas...Look, I got my mug in Time Magazine... I'd say that's 'Mission Accomplished', wouldn't you? Now, why don't we all just head over to the Four Seasons and hoist a few... on me."
As the April 4th cover of Time Magazine warned Seattle-Lites to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried", it's Special Report on Global Warming glowingly profiled Mayor Greg Nickels for his leadership among US cities in hunting down insurgent greenhouse gases.
For Seattle that translates to taking 148,000 cars off the road.
To accomplish this feat Nickels plans to raise highway tolls and parking taxes to excrucitating levels for Seattle-Lites in a painful two-fold strategy being referred to locally as 'Schlock and Awe'.
So far, 218 other mayors have eagerly joined with Nickels, signing on to what many of them are calling a "Coalition of The Cool" in the hopes that they too might end up with a line item in their own city budget just like Greg's... namely, $80,000 a year for "personal entertaining". (The figure reported last week in the Seattle Weekly)
One mayor, who wished to remain anonymous told Michael C. "Greg really opened our eyes with those intelligence reports he had linking the existence of questionable 'Warmings of Minor Degrees' to the ability to create a serious good-times-rock-and-roll slush fund."
When questioned about the specifics of his plan for winning the war on greenhouse gases, along with the huge costs that would be incured, Nickels told reporters, "Details, details fellas...Look, I got my mug in Time Magazine... I'd say that's 'Mission Accomplished', wouldn't you? Now, why don't we all just head over to the Four Seasons and hoist a few... on me."
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