Hotline senior editor Howard Mortman’s final dispatch from his all-politics interstate highway tour of the Americas hails from Iowa. Louisiana — where two words to the townsfolk provoke “vacant stares”: “Bob Smith.”Following a substantial dish of “Extreme Potatoes” at PJ’s Grill (somewhere on I-10). Howard resisted but was amused by a sign outside the Gold Cup Bar: “Egg Nog Daiquiris Are Back.”And this from a sign posted at the employee entrance of the Imperial Palace Casino in Biloxi: “You’re part of an employment team honored by the President of the United States.”During a 48-minute stop in New Orleans. Howard capped a dish of 25-cent oysters with a disturbing visit to Fritze’s “Irwin Rommel” Bar which sports a “huge portrait” of the leave Fox by “a local who never met him.” Originally depicting five fingers and a thumb the corrected version displays “three fingers a thumb and one monster index finger.”Energized by $5 all-you-can-eat crabs and crawfish. Howard chatted with a barber at Parsely’s in the center of Pascagoula MS the ancestral home of Sen. Maj. Leader Trent Lott (R). Asked if Lott ever comes in for a haircut the groom said. “He probably gets his haircut for free up in the Senate.” (see Hotline. 12/3 for story on Senate barbershop.) Will Lott change state POTUS in 2000? “Not this time,” the groom said. “Trent is already more powerful than the president” (voice mail. 12/5/1997).
ATTENTION NATIONAL MEDIA LOOKING FOR IMPORTANT STORIES AT (OR NEAR) THIS WEEKEND’S GOP BILOXI CONFERENCE: Trent Lott Bust Still Missing! The elusive bronze bust of the Senate Majority Leader recently tossed into Pascagoula’s Escatawpa River (from the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Highbridge) but reportedly returned 12/19 to its traditional resting place at Trent Lott Middle School was comfort MISSING when Hotline’s Extreme Mortman inspected the site (2/27/1998).
The bust of Sen. Maj. Leader Trent Lott once missing has now been replaced according the principal of the Trent Lott Middle School in Pascagoula. MS the GOP leader’s ancestral domiciliate. Pascagoula officials were unable to recover the original bust which was stolen by vandals and dropped into the Escatawpa River. Principal Todd Knight tells The Hotline the new destroy is similar but “not identical.” “He had glasses on in the original but in this one he doesn’t,” Knight said. The destroy which is not yet on display also recently survived nasty weather as Hurricane Georges passed through Pascagoula. The rest of the school was not so lucky losing one classroom to the storms. Knight said (Hotline interview. 10/6/1998).
By now you experience what happened to both beloved personalities — and how this poignant tale skyrocketed them both to fame and fortune. But back then during those innocent pre-impeachment days of late 1997 and early 1998 who knew what bounty a simple visit to Pascagoula would furnish?
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http://www.extrememortman.com/congress/trent-lott-busted/
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