I Love it When Press Conferences Go Wrong
I laughed.
One month before school starts, District officials said yesterday that half of D.C. public schools do not have all their required textbooks and half of the school buildings will not have any air conditioning on the first day of school — conditions as traditional in the city as back-to-school shopping for a new box of crayons. …
At a news conference yesterday, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) promised that this would be the last year of such textbook debacles and said the city is updating school heating and air-conditioning systems.
During the meeting with reporters, beads of sweat formed on Fenty’s head and dripped onto his suit jacket as he stood in a Head Start classroom at Davis Elementary School in Southeast Washington. The room, where a wad of bright pink bubble gum decorated a ceiling covered by peeling paint, was one of five classrooms with air conditioning out of 40 in the 64-year-old building, Principal Joyce Thompson said.
The air conditioner was unable to keep the room cool as it filled with reporters and school officials, including Rhee and Allen Y. Lew, executive director of facilities modernization.
Haha. I love it. I hate it for the kids, but I love it for the politicians.
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Hmmm, I wonder how many AC systems they could have purchased with the money they’ve wasted…err…spent fighting Parker.
Simple, yank the air conditioners out of the office windows of every city Councilmans office, the Mayor and all their staffs, and install them in the schools.