Showing posts with label Governance Mayors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Governance Mayors. Show all posts

Friday, September 30, 2011

Apparently it's tougher to be a mayor than a pro football player


Apparently it's tougher to be a mayor than a pro football player. Don't we know it!
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/thetoydepartment/2011/09/catching_up_with_michael_jacks.html

Catching up with ... Michael Jackson

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/thetoydepartment/2011/09/catching_up_with_michael_jacks.html
mikejackson400.gifFifteen years ago, the Ravens’ Michael Jackson arrived in Baltimore wearing one gold earring and driving a Mercedes convertible stuffed with a wardrobe of 30 suits, each with matching shoes.

How his outfit has changed. Last month, as heavy rains pounded Louisiana, Jackson donned a rain slicker and rubber gloves and sloughed through a trough of stinking ooze to clear a clogged sewer line in the community of Tangipahoa.

That’s life for a small-town mayor.

“Football didn’t prepare me for this,” said Jackson, 42, who was elected in 2008. “The job is far tougher than playing in the NFL.” ...  

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/thetoydepartment/2011/09/catching_up_with_michael_jacks.html
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