Boos for Mayor
Couldn’t San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor have used a different analogy in her remarks to GOP officials, instead of calling San Diego “a beautiful girl” who “doesn’t have a dowry” (“Mayor Tries to Sweet-Talk GOP Into Picking S.D.,” Oct. 12)?
And boos also to City Councilwoman Judy McCarty for saying that “we may not have a dowry . . . but we can promise you a lot of fun.” In other words, we are for sale; we’ll give you our bodies for your money.
Can you imagine “a handsome boy” with no dowry who’ll give you a lot of fun? Shades of “American Gigolo.”
I know that advertising uses sex to sell products--but our mayor using a sexual analogy to sell our city? Absurd, tasteless and typical of today’s “marriage” of entertainment, news, politicians.
MICHELLE M. BURKE, Fallbrook
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