22.4.05

mayor goodman seethes

"Whoever takes advantage of the largesse and good will of the city is a bum," a seething Goodman said. "Real pigs."
When you offer 50,000 free tickets to a Red Hot Chili Peppers/Weezer concert online for the Las Vegas Centennial, you're bound to have scalpers on the fringes. The tickets were wiped out within four minutes. I wrote about how I scored 4 free tickets, while "bums" are eBaying them for over $200!
"Asked for his own reaction to the drama, City Councilman Larry Brown launched into the chorus of a 1991 Chili Peppers smash hit: "Give it away, give it away, give it away now."