03-17-09, Letter from Greg Wilkinson to the Glendale News-Press, “A Not-so-Psychic Look at Glendale Politics”

 

Hal, I know your audience is interested in letters to the Glendale News Press that have recently been submitted for publication but excluded by the editors.  Here is another for the collection as the election approaches.

 

 

From: Greg Wilkinson <gregwilkin@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM

Subject: A Not-so-Psychic Look at Glendale Politics

To: gnp@latimes.com

 

 

A distant cousin of Carnac the Magnificent of Tonight show fame was recently asked to comment on election politics in Glendale.  The reknowned seer, soothsayer and psychic was given the answers from which he used his paranormal powers to provide the questions.

 

A. A dweeb, a geek and a peek.

Q. What do you call GWP boss Glenn Steiger, City Manager Jim Starbird and both men looking down on the crowd from a nearby parking structure at the recent Glendale utility rate protest?

 

A. A full deli menu featuring all the baloney you can swallow.

Q. What do you get for lunch at any city council campaign function attended by a council incumbent?

 

A. A good lesson in recognizing self-deception and what goes around comes around.

Q. What basic course should be offered free to our local city hall incumbents and the idea that they had nothing at all to do with the current budget mess?

 

A. Lacking insight, limited foresight and asleep at the wheel.

Q. Describe an incumbent's weakness, a fault and what they were doing while serving as an officer on the Titanic as the city's ship bore down on the economic iceberg?

 

A. Fiddled while Rome burned and the party's over.

Q. How will history describe the incumbents' leadership and what's in store for a future Glendale unless the voters bring a change on April 7?

 

 

Greg Wilkinson

La Crescenta