LINCOLN'S OWN TV SERIES SEQUELS
Date: Thursday, June 05 @ 00:07:23 CDT
Topic: News and Views


A few days ago I was searching for a particular television program and chanced upon a re-run of the once popular series "All In The Family." It struck me that certain television series, past and present, have things in common with politics in the Capitol City.

"All in the Family" featured "Archie" a domineering influence over his sweet but fickle and scatter brained wife "Edith." Then there was the son-in-law "Michael" who never was accepted by Archie due to his liberal long-hair hippy lifestyle. You remember him as "Meat Head." When the smoke cleared and the political dust settled after the last mayoral election, we got rid of our own "Meat Head" (Don Wesely) and he was succeeded in office by our own "Edith" (Coleen Seng). We're all wondering if Rick Hoppe, Seng's campaign manager, who many consider to be the perennial political pimp, will play the role of Archie in Edith's administration.

Then we consider the program "You Want to Be a Millionaire" and its parallel in city government. The millionaire wanna-bes are the bond peddlers. We read day after day about the financial shortfalls in our city, county and state governments, then a few days later some reporter writes a story about a committee hiring a $200,000 consultant to justify a new $100 Million event center in Lincoln. And that follows Lincoln spending $100,000 to have a Texas consultant tell us what those "in the know" wanted to hear, namely justification for a $220 Million downtown project. "Sell bonds and pour concrete" is, thanks to our former mayor, a well established way of life in Lincoln city politics. Has everybody forgotten that we have the "Ag-Event Center" which cost us around $12-15 Million (you know, the one that doesn't seem to be able to account for all of the money taken in) where the incumbent Executive Director is rumored to be a "missing person" at critical times, like for instance, when folks want to book events.

When you see our new mayor's hair-do, you immediately think of the program "Extreme Make-over." Wonder if our "Edith" Seng would be willing to consider a change from the fuzzy, frizzy afro-style head covering she now has. I'll bet her devoted constituency would be willing to start a campaign to raise the where-with-all to fund such. We could call it "Coins for Coleen's new Coiffure." Wonder if the dashing and debonair Glenn Friend would be gracious enough to volunteer his services to head such a campaign. Charlie Claus could put the heavy hand on LIBA members to make modest donations to the cause before she speaks to that group at a forthcoming luncheon.

How about the HBO series, "Sex and the City." Makes one recall that our previous mayor who was dumped by two wives - the first for the second - we are told for engaging in John Kennedy and Bill Clinton type pass-times. Then the second dumped him, it is rumored, for his habitual hanging around the Hovis-Hunter household.

"Mission Impossible" could relate to an employment agency trying to get Don Wesely a real job. There is little demand for a guy whose only visible qualification is feeding at the public trough. Everyone is wondering what he is doing with his time these days. The rumor around town is he is acting as Coleen Bunkers chauffeur (maybe he's trying to drive her crazy).

Our current mayor had better order TV Tom (Tom Casady) to have his troops keep good watch over her highness. Remember, if for any reason, she could not continue in office, the once again Democrat dominated City Council would pick the person to fill her unexpired term, hence we could have the Weasel weasel his way back into politics.

But not to worry! Our prediction is that Donald is lusting to join his old buddy David Hunter's well-healed widow in the "Land of the Dimpled Chads" (Florida) so his newly acquired "sugar-mama" could introduce him to "Life Styles of the Rich and Famous." That would be a "Bonanza" for Nebraska and there would be "Cheers" in Lincoln if that were to happen.





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