When I was a young girl Gary Ackerman ran the Flushing Tribune.
I remember him coming to the Octoberfest, held in Flushing Meadow Park on the Queens Botanical Garden side, every year. He was a big fat dirty slob.
He looked like he never bathe and wore the same dirty t-shirt year after year.
Many years later, after he was elected to the house of representatives, I sat at a table next to him in a restaurant called Alberto's in Forest Hills.
He looked like a
big fat cat politician.
Expensive suit, hairstyle and manicure.
Over the years - I've wavered in my opinion of him.
I hear him interviewed on the local radio shows.
This puts the nail in his coffin - as far as my opinion goes - I'm not one of his constituents though.
Sorry for the long story - but Mord's post made me think of him.