Via Alternet’s PEEK:
California governor Arnold Schwartzenegger has been filling potholes as part of his campaign to improve transportation in his state.
Thing is, there was no pothole until road workers created one for the governor to fill!
“They just dug it out,” [Nick] Porrovecchio said, shrugging. “There was a crack. But they dug out the whole road this morning.”
More below:
My pal Susan T in Michigan sent me this story earlier. From that news story at the San Francisco Chronicle:
“It’s a lot of money spent on a staged event,” said Matt Vujevich, 74, a retiree whose home faced the crew-made trench that straddled nearly the whole street. “We still have the same problems. Everything’s a press
conference.”
conference.”
[………………..]
“For paving the streets, it’s a lot of lighting,” said resident Nick
Porrovecchio, 48, motioning to a team of workmen setting up
Hollywood-style floodlights on the street to bathe the gubernatorial
podium in a soft glow.
Yesterday’s Ahnuld snark: “Beatty: ‘Bulworth Takes on the Terminator'”