Tuesday, November 24, 2015
City Governance
-“Bureau of Adjustment” it’s called.
-It’s for when you’re tearing your hair out?
-Thousand upfront and we make most go away.
-Where does the thousand go?
-Where it does the most good: The Party!
-What’s the process in making some other bureau
drop the scabrous complaint?
-You read from a script:
Hi! This is_____________from The Adjustment Bureau.
Big Guy says drop the fuckin complaint against_________!
-Thousand could be a bargain at that!
-Uh, there’s actually a sliding scale.
-Littlest John Q might be dinged for...two?
-About right.
-Sky’s limit after him?
-Such a beautiful sky!
Labels: adjustment, bribery, city, city politics, corruption, governance
Friday, February 20, 2015
City Politics
“Marie, Marie!
Go wash your feet.
The Board of Health's
across the street!”
How we Irish asserted thus
our hygienic superiority in
New Haven, for now we won
via Mayor Richard Lee,
after generations of Yankee
fucking. So, we, in turn
fucked the Italians. My
father worked for the Journal-
Courier, published by
John Day Jackson, who
didn't descend from Prospect
Street to cast many Democratic
votes. Italians eventually got
their Dick Celentano, Republican.
Then, the Blacks fretted in
the wings. Eventually scored too.
And, after, the Hispanics. It’s
the story of the slugging Northeast city.
And one hell of a one in it’s grimier
precincts! Freedom of Information Act
devised for such. Small potatoes, but
toxic little buggers!
Labels: black, city politics, Democrat, Irish, Italian, New England Politics, New Haven, Northeast, Republican
