Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits& Outrages PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST, I When some of her colleagues on the Vista, California, city council objected to holding a dinner meeting at public expense, council member Jeanette Smith...
...She is running for county supervisor and has left instructions that she won't be back in the office until after the primary...
...PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST, II When reporter Steve Harvey of The Los Angeles Times called the office of Huntington Beach Mayor Linda Moulton-Patterson, a staff member told him, "She is not in the office...
...A New Yorker compilation of celebrity reminiscences of Jacqueline Kennedy included this contribution from novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "I just finished my most recent manuscript, and she knew I was going on a trip, and she called to say, 'Can I have it before you go?' I'd like to think that she had it with her—the most precious part of me—by her at the end...
...THE KID HAS POTENTIAL," SAID CLARK CLIFFORD When asked if the current lobbying activities of longtime Clinton aide Betsey Wright were in any way incompatible with Clinton's criticisms of Washington lobbyists, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers told The New York Times that in those criticisms, Clinton was primarily referring to former federal officials who use their access after leaving the government while Wright "has never worked for the federal government as far as I know...
...BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME—WHAT DID YOU THINK OF MY NEW BOOK WHILE YOU WERE DYING...
...AND STAFF, I'D LIKE YOU TO MEET OUR ELECTION CONSULTANT, LANI GUINIER" In an election to choose the school schedule for the Euclid Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, the Euclid staff arranged to get its preference passed, even though the alternative was much more popular among parents, by giving each school staffer six votes and parents only one...
...Tidbits& Outrages PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST, I When some of her colleagues on the Vista, California, city council objected to holding a dinner meeting at public expense, council member Jeanette Smith responded, "You're so damned concerned with what the public thinks that it gets in the way of what's best for us...
...Scott Shuger...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 7
