[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

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On Oct 22, 10:00 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <k61bs2$iu... at dont-email.me>, David Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
> > It's a common problem with airports.  The airport exists.  People find
> > "cheap land" (because of the airport), and later attempt to close down
> > the airport.  A true flaw in "democracy, the terrorism of the majority".
>
>    A common enough problem.  In our county, there is a "county"
>    airport.  When it was built the area around it was zoned for light
>    industry and such only, so there would be no housing containing
>    foilks affected by, and complaining about, airport noise.
>
>    Enter developer, who gets nearby land rezoned.  I had a coworker who
>    lived in an apartment next to the airport.
>
>    By which flaw in democracy did that developer achieve the rezoning?
>    Campain contributions?  We don't know.  Doesn't sound democratic
>    (in the general sense) to me, but it reminds me of how Sonmhy Bono
>    got his zoning problem fixed:  he ran for mayor, and won.

It's better than that. Sonny Bono kept asking for permission to put up
a sign on his restaurant. And some official kept repeatedly stopping
him. So Sonny said to the guy, "I'm going to be mayor and fire you,"
or something along those lines. He ran for mayor, won, and fired the
guy! OK, I'm not absolutely sure about this. I heard this many years
ago.

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