John Gaccione

11/01/17

For Immediate Release

The plague of satiric messages continues! Many of us here at headquarters have been on alert for those pesky satiric and irony loaded communiqués that have been popping up lately.

One of our members alerted us to the appearance of what can only be described as a satiric piece of writing that appeared in the current issue of the “Kensington Outlook”. One might have guessed it was the “facts are inconvenient to the scenario” screed that appeared in the “Citizen Forum” section. But while that piece had more than its share of spin it was overshadowed by a letter to the editor.

The letter in question is titled “Spending to Save and Other Trumpisms”. In the letter the writer seems to be advancing the hallucinatory notion that the current KPPCSD bears an uncanny resemblance to the Trump administration. Apparently the board does this by advancing the slogan “Make Kensington Boring Again” and by appointing people to the board with whom the writer does not agree. With a reference to Trump’s “draining the swamp” tag line the writer gets caught up in the same self serving, mind bending, blend of fact and fiction that has made Trump the butt of a thousand jokes.

But the letter goes on to suggest that the board is spending money left and right like a drunken sailor who just hit port.  This is the “spending to save” part, and by the looks of it one would guess the writer does not have a firm grip on what or how the board conducts its business. Transparency seems to be issue for the writer, but it is unclear just what the issue is exactly. The only shard of an explanation offered is a rehash of an old line from a western movie.

Then back to a clumsy attempt to compare board members to Trump. It appears that the writer was hoping to craft a letter that would include all the old “status quo” political hot buttons; the KPPCSD Board president, transparency, the Chris Deppe appointment, investigating contracting for police services, the public safety building upgrade, the KFD Board, and link them to the failing Trump administration. The device doesn’t work and the writer may even have lost some favor with the “status quo” folks because the letter failed to include the citation of Kensington as the fifth safest spot in the known universe. Sad.

What would be the aim of submitting such a letter? Is it yet again another attempt at haranguing the good people of Kensington with more satire and irony?

As one of the gang members shouts out in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” movie: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! I don’t got to show you any stinkin’ badges!”

Keeping Kensington Kooky since 2008