That’s right, Sac Business Journal reports this week Sacramento has been named the 3rd most popular city in AMERICA for plastic surgery! San Francisco took the #1 spot. Los Angeles was a distant #48! Plastic surgeon guru Dr. Debra Johnson told Sacramento Business Journal, top procedures among women in Greater Sacramento include “liposuction, breast augmentation and mommy makeovers.” Top procedures for men are eyelid lifts and lipo. Despite the economic downturn, the doc says business at Sacramento Surgery Center is robust.
Here’s a list of several City of Sacramento employees who are prime candidates for surgery of a different metaphorical kind..
Ray Tretheway: Blepharoplasty (or “Eyelid Lift”)
Ray needs to open his eyes, and have a look at his own neighborhood where residents will line up to tell you how it has gone from bad to worse since he took office as council person. Now Ray is seeking to loot the North Natomas Finance Plan to fund a West Natomas fire station that should have been built with revenue the city instead spent on downtown projects during the Fargonian Regime. The least Ray could do is buy us a meal at one of the swanky joints downtown. And the least we could do for Ray’s own good is RECALL HIM.
Ray Kerridge. Abdominoplasty (or “Tummy Tuck”)
This won’t be popular, but our city staff is bloated and the fat needs to be cut. The staff is still the same size it was when the good times were rolling, and that is not going to work in these lean times. No one wants to see people lose their jobs, but the bottom line is most companies are cutting personnel to stay above water, and our city should do the same. It’s the cold hard of reality of a recession. My condolences to those who will have to find work elsewhere. I have been laid off twice. It sucks. But drastic economic times call for drastic measures and Kevin Johnson’s audit should identify a lot of non mission critical jobs that can be cut until the city’s dire financial position changes.
Lauren Hammond. Rhinoplasty (or “Nose Job”)
Keen observers will note the honorable councilwoman Hammond is the only one at city hall NOT pinching her nose when the half-baked half-vapored trash-to-energy proposal is discussed in council’s chambers. She remains a staunch proponent of the plan, even though the company offering to construct the “plasma arc gasification” plant free of charge will not discuss financials unless the city signs a contract with them. Lauren continues to push the plan, despite unanswered questions about toxic metal handling, and prospective locations (which one Joe Sac reader opined could very well be North Natomas, the city’s favorite dumping ground). Even dummies like Joe can smell a garbage proposal when one floats under his schnoz.
Leslie Fritzsche. Rhytidectomy (or “Face Lift”)
Poor Leslie is our Downtown Development Manager. There was a time when that title might have been an impressive resume entry, but now days it holds no more cred’ than “Shooting Coach, Sacramento Kings.” In short, the way things are shaping up, the K Street Redevelopment effort outgoing mayor Heather Fargo touted as one of her greatest achievements might–just might–turn out to be one of the costliest FORTY MILLION DOLLAR mistakes the city ever made. $40 million is the number of [North Natomas??] dollars the city burned to acquire K Street property from former owner, Moe Mohanna. $20 million of it was vaporized to help furniture store guru–and Southern California resident–Joe Zeiden (of Z Galleria fame) turn the area into his own little “retail row.” Well, the city has all the property and the coast is finally clear for Zeiden, but now he is nowhere to be found. Word is that Zeiden is frustrated it took six years to get the deal done (typical Fargo latency), and now wants even MO’ (not Moe) MONEY from us!! Time for Leslie and the council to get their jaws off the floor and find another partner.
Call to action: Recall Ray Tretheway, cut city personnel until city’s finances improve, nix the garbage vapro plan, and STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY ON DOWNTOWN SURGERY!!!
Nice! This is the stuff I look forward to reading on your site. The gay marriage commentary was excellent but this is your wheel house my friend. Sacto needs your voice on these things and you are dead bang on the money with this article. I am also impressed because you have obviously been paying attention to all your readers comments. You continue to improve as writer and voice for watchdog Sacramentans and should be commended. Great job!
Hey Joe,
Funny reading today, the Hammond comment would be more halarious if it wasn’t so true. Ray T. told me a year or so ago that this new energy plan was in the works, this was his answer when we all complained of the transfer station in our backyards. The Teri Hardy Bee article needs to be read by everybody, for the city to enter into an agreement for 20 years with such minimal understanding is beyond stupid. I am sure the CEQA laws will terminate the project, can you imagine trusting this company with air quality standards when they won’t inform us of the proper data. We already have some of the worst air in the nation, keep up the good work.
Wait… What happened to “once money has been allocated, it can’t be moved?” Isn’t that what we heard to justify the insane expense of Fort Natomas? That park money can’t be firestation money? Does he have a clue how much double-speak comes out of his mouth?
Ray really needs what I’ll call an arse-orectomy… Stitch that thing up so he stops talking out of it! Such nonsense.
Joe first let me say great video interviews dude! Love that you go out and talk to average every day people like you do and I think it is very cool that someone does this without asking for a dime in return. Much respect to you and the guys who filmed that. I can not give you enough pats on the back for broadcasting the voice of the average “Joe.” Now about this article I have to say that this one: “There was a time when that title might have been an impressive resume entry, but now days it holds no more cred’ than “Shooting Coach, Sacramento Kings” made me snort in laughter in my cube and made people look over at me and then I read Sac Blog’s comment about Tretheway needing an “arse-orectomy” and nearly spit my drink out. This has become one of my favorite web sites for the articles and comments so please keep up the great work and add a way for use to donate dude!
Plastic surgery is really just icky in general
Agree with Keenan, hilarious
Oh so now that the election is over, I am your friend now? Super!
I like friends.
I betchya he was proud of that, too. God love him. You know he had a touchy meeting this past Saturday with residents. I hear a few were pretty hard on him. I, on the other hand, was out of town and it could-not-get-out-of family event. Would have liked to have been there to hear Ray slither out of N Natomas project funding. Unreal turn of events. Oh well, North Natomas is in trouble and a few projects are not going to turn it around in the next 4, 5, 6 years. More inclusionary housing coming though. Gotta reach that 15%!
LOL! This was extremely cute. I happen to prefer the Blepharoplasty for Ray Tretheway. It suits him and the word reminds me of barfing.
Heather Fargo did a town hall at my work before the election and one of my coworkers asked her what her overall vision was for redeveloping the downtown area. She didn’t have an answer. What’s the result? Alot of money spent and a downtown that is basically still a dump compared to those of other cities of comparable size in the West. Go to Denver if you want to see a good example of what Sacramento could become under the right leadership.
Good point DMC, it is pretty pathetic seeing all the fat cat developers line up for city cash, reminds me of the federal bailout of Detroit or Wall Street, what is happening with the Rail Yard development, I am hoping the new administration will perform better than Fargo. There is great potential there, as with K St too. I think 50 million dollars has been spent on a few blocks downtown with few results. Many millions more on litigation too. I have asked this before, do we ever get paid back the money we loan these jack asses, or do they assume new tax revenue or job growth is the pay back??
the latter.. and PATHETIC is right
Many of you were not around… but in the 80’s and early 90’s we pent 200 million on the K street mall and built the new mall at the end…almost all with taxpayers dollars and redevelopment funds.
what has it gotten us?
Let K street mall rot …. and let the free market take care of it… we have spent now like 250-300 million and look what we have to show for it
http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/1417956.html
Can we really trust Kevin Johnson since it is now clear he could not pay his bills to the Sacramento City Unified School District?
Fair question. Guess we’re about to find out. Good thing he is not the city manager ay Rich?