[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[AEF]

On Oct 31, 10:23 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <0c2e4263-b674-4de8-b201-1c1408467... at c16g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > 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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>    That sounds like urban legend.

OK, I just did my homework.

Here's verification of the mayor and restaurant sign part of the
story:

http://www.insidetheie.com/sonny-bono-became-mayor-of-palm-

"Sony Bono entered politics after experiencing great frustration with
the local government bureaucracy in trying to open a restaurant in
Palm Springs, California.....Remember how the Cahuilla's own every
other square mile of the city established by US Treaty....That and an
inept and greedy bunch of local politicians he was trying to deal
with, set Sony off on a run for Mayor of the City of Palm
Springs....Most people thought him a joke and the whole thing a
stunt....But to the surprise of the pundits, but not to the citizens
of Palm Springs, He was elected as Mayor, he got his sign for his
restaurant and he and his wife Mary, were instrumental in making the
city more business friendly, got rid of the annual Spring Break
Madness, and also spearheaded the creation of the Palm Springs
International Film Festival, now held each year in Bono's memory."

You can find many other such references saying pretty much the same
thing. So I think it's a pretty safe bet that he ran for mayor over a
sign. I could swear I heard on the radio that he fired the person who
refused him the sign -- but yes, I could be mistaken.

AEF