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Mayor gets parking ticket, creates own space...and controversy
The mayor of Logansport, Ind. (above), got into a controversy about parking involving the local police.
/ WikipediaThen there's the parking predicament in Logansport, Ind., where the mayor apparently didn't anticipate the reaction he might get, by creating a reserved parking space for himself.
Mayor Ted Franklin tells the Pharos-Tribune that he was ticketed by police when the nose of his Corvette was sticking into a no-parking zone. That's when he decided to solve the problem by designating a parking space at the City Building in an area previously reserved for police.
Frankllin put up a sign reading: "Mayor Parking Only."
Bad move politically, and parking-ly.
Mayor Franklin says because of all the media attention the issue had become a "distraction"...so now he's decided to convert the space he'd reserved for himself at the a parking spot for handicapped individuals.
Franklin says it's time to grow up and to "stop playing the game."
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