The Mouth That Roared
I pride myself in making a point quickly and clearly. Yesterday's Standard-Examiner editorial on the misplaced arrogance of the Salt Lake City mayor shows me that I'm a rank amateur:
The Mouth That Roared gave his State of the City address Tuesday evening, in which he paused from listing his own accomplishments only long enough to lecture elected leaders, appointed officials and commuters from Davis and Weber counties about how they are killing their neighbors to the south with automobile exhaust.
I don't know that I agree, however, that Rocky is a complete bust as a mayor. Yes, he's killing his own city. But, he's performing miracles for the growth of mine. Business owners and productive citizens -- come on down to Dixie!
The Mouth That Roared gave his State of the City address Tuesday evening, in which he paused from listing his own accomplishments only long enough to lecture elected leaders, appointed officials and commuters from Davis and Weber counties about how they are killing their neighbors to the south with automobile exhaust.
I don't know that I agree, however, that Rocky is a complete bust as a mayor. Yes, he's killing his own city. But, he's performing miracles for the growth of mine. Business owners and productive citizens -- come on down to Dixie!
posted by steve u. at 1/14/2005
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Steve,
I am there! I am totally amazed at how clueless he is about Northern Utah. Anderson is from Logan. This attitude that we have chosen to live here and commute to the “Holy City” of Salt Lake is absurd. If I could afford to live there and work I would. Housing was cheaper in my area of South Ogden, but when I worked in Salt Lake it was because that job only existed there. Many employers recruit out of the county, they bring us to Salt Lake. Tell the employers of Salt Lake that they can no longer higher skilled workers outside of the county and see what they say. Rocky is way off track and out of touch with reality.
For anyone living in Weber or Davis like me he wants to know what he said, check it out:
"The choices of those who have decided to commute long distances, mostly as they drive one person per automobile, and to foul our air, clog our roads and increase our nation's dependence upon foreign oil, should not be encouraged and further accommodated by asphalting over open spaces and exacerbating those enormous problems these people have already created," We want our friends from the north to come to Salt Lake City; we just don't want them to increase our city's traffic, further foul our air, undermine the quality of our lives and make us sick simply because of the choices they make about where they live and how they get around."
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