Not picking up your nametag: decidedly unfab. Credit: Photo by Wells Dunbar

As you may have heard, the centerpiece of Mayor Will Wynn’s speech to his supporters at the Downtown Austin Alliance today was a call for a November 2008 rail referendum – specifically, a “linear circulator alignment” to run from Downtown, the Capitol, UT, Mueller, and the Triangle. But what did he say that we can make fun of?

Well, how about this: The “fabulous” descriptor was trotted out at least a dozen times, with “dazzling” closing in towards the end. Is our mayor angling for a post-politics rap career or what?

This article appears in October 19 • 2007.

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