Just a simple question
July 2nd, 2009For all of my local news followers, you’re probably wondering why I’ve stayed mum on one of the hottest topics to hit the local news stations in a while, well ok after the incinerator debate and early city buy-outs. Yes I’m talking about the HPC.
I’ve stayed mum because I can’t believe its gotten so much attention and press. I’ve stayed mum because you’re probably tired of hearing about it. I’ve stayed mum because I always thought it would be flattering to have a bunch of men fight over me but that thought quickly evaporated once I realized there is no Johnny Depp look alike in a pirates outfit participating in the fight.
But allow me to simplify the matter…
Our first year anniversary is fast approaching - July 25 (more on that later) - and I just remembered that I spent our opening night last year at City Hall begging for us to have our name over the door. A full year later and I am right where I started. Lucky me, July 25th this year falls on a Saturday and I know the busy bees at the HPC will not be working on a Saturday night.
Just a simple question - Is it crazy to want an unobstructed view of our name over the door? Apparently, some think yes.
But I decided to have a little gathering. Just to ask some neighbors what they thought. A silly gathering request which I thought no one in their right mind would attend. I even talked my husband into quitting golf early so I wouldn’t be in an empty room.
But more than a few neighbors, business owners and candidates for office showed up. To name a few, candidates running for aldermen, Bill Ashton, Joe Cohen, John Shupe, Michael O’Conner, Kelly Russell, Karen Young (phone calls and emails from John Daniels and Amanda Haddaway). Those running for Mayor Jason Judd, Clint Hoffman and Randy McClement.
The great Frederick institutions, Bert Anderson (who singlehandedly built the historic landmarks and shopping centers Shab Row and Everedy Square), Phil Bowers owner of Brewers Alley, Acacia and Isabellas, WT Mills radio personality and barber to the who’s who of Frederick.
Including Frederick News Post and Frederick Gazette reporters with their photographers in tow.
These figures only to name a few, who left the comfy of their couch on a Monday night to join me, in a discussion about my sign.
At one time during my speech Mr. Anderson even referred to our gathering as a “McCarthy moment” — that moment when when enough people realized that there was something wrong with a government body.
Another simple question posed to McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” The question focused the country on McCarthy’s mean-spirited destruction of any person who might disagree with him. I’m sure this simple question has been posed to the HPC on numerous occasions.
Fielding several phone calls from our current aldermen, requests for meetings from merchants and candidates running for office - all of this - over four metal letters, welcoming guests to our restaurant.
