Apropos of 15th Minute:
From:
Richard McIverSubject:
My Vices & My HeartEditor,
I appreciate the concern expressed by The Stranger for my heart (Your 15 Minutes Are Up, December 25), however, I feel the need to set the record straight. While I admit that I’ve enjoyed my reputation as a “hard-drinkin’, chain-smokin’, red-meat-eatin’ sonofabitch” I quit smoking nearly a year ago. I’m not quite sure why, but after having smoked unfiltered Camels for nearly half a century, they simply didn’t taste good anymore.
While I still enjoy my Johnny Walker Red on the rocks, I’ve cut back on that vice, and I even take the stairs (down) in City Hall with at least some regularity. Spending a few weeks in the hospital does provide plenty of time to think about one’s mortality, but I remain a committed non-exercisin’, red-meat-eatin’ sonofabitch. (Thanks, but I’ll pass on the carrot sticks.)
Richard J. McIver
Seattle City Council
Our apologies, you hard drinkin’, red-meat-eatin’ sonofabitch. We owe you a bacon cheeseburger.
Didn’t McIver recently get so drunk and violent that his wife had to call the cops?
she was very drunk too and there were no signs of violence
thought he smoked Pall Malls – is that a fake email?
The main problem is that the dude is asleep during almost every meeting I’ve ever been to or seen him in… Won’t someone please run against him next time?
…they won’t need to. I (and pretty much everyone else who follows local politics at all) would be very surprised indeed if he decides to run again.
I questioned if the blood was getting to his brain anymore when he voted for the strip club, blue nose nanny law.
Both he and his wife should’ve stopped drinking completely.
Anyone for requiring medical supervision of alcohol use – say via a driver’s license bar code swipe?
My brother makes a mean burger with cheese that would give McIver a heart attack.
Let’s legislate car usage and restrict it only to those who actually need it for their jobs – which obviously does NOT include city officials.