Blame the Mayor!
I just love it when the Mayor gets blamed for not removing snow fast enough from the streets.
I remember Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandik losing his primary fight with Jane Byrne over a snowstorm.
So it just tickled me when I read about the problems in Washington.
The competence of Washington officials was again under fire on Wednesday as heavy snow shut the US capital for a third business day, with normal services not expected to resume until at least next week.
Roads, many still covered after the bad weekend weather, were blanketed by another several inches of snow on Wednesday morning as uncleared slush began to freeze over.
Freezing slush… YES!
“Maintaining and improving this essential service should have been a higher priority for the mayor and the city council than building a billion dollar baseball stadium,” said Gigi Ransom, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Washington, referring to a controversial sports complex built in 2008.
Irrelevant arguments… YES!
Karyn Leblanc of Washington’s department of transportation said the city had done a “fantastic” job keeping the fleet running, given the historic snowfall.
Verbal snow-job … YES!
Adrian Fenty, Washington’s mayor, who has come under criticism despite efforts to update the city’s snow removal practices, also defended the district government’s actions, saying it had long used up the $6.2m earmarked for snow removal this season and would apply for federal emergency funds.
Federal emergency funds to remove snow … NO!
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