Thursday, 9:30 a.m. When we asked Rep. John Scott about his Republican challenger, Denise Jones, he reminded us:
"You know, I’ve got this new me?" he said. "If I can’t say something good …," and left it at that, except to say, "We can’t afford to have inexperienced people at the helm."
Indeed, we were somewhat shocked back during the primary season by the transformation of the former in-your-face lawmaker into the kinder, gentler John Scott. But we’re starting to get used to it. It no longer seems nearly as weird as it did in May.
We talked about a number of state and local issues, from gang violence to annexation to local transit — but it’s the last one that is his passion, to the point that after a decade of working on the issue from a public policy standpoint, he actually went into the transportation consulting business several years back.
He said we need to "eliminate this thing that buses are for poor people." Society needs to get the more affluent into public transit, "instead of having three or four cars in the yard, all going in the same direction" every day. He said we’ve "really got to get serious" about the emissions problem, which is getting particularly bad in the Upstate.
He said the public won’t tolerate raising the gasoline tax enough to meet the state’s serious backlog in highway construction and maintenance — implying that those critical needs will have to wait a serious reordering of spending from the general fund.
After that, he mentioned tobacco, which led generally to the overall issue of health, which led specifically to his other great passion, the state’s obesity epidemic.
This, of course, led to another lecture to me about sugar, which my fanatical colleague who was present joined in on. This was unfair, because I’ve been taking my coffee black all week, but just that morning I had decided to allow myself one little luxury (for which I did 50 extra push-ups), and so I admitted that the cup on the table had the dreaded natural sweetener in it.
So how much, he wanted to know. A teaspoon? Two? "Two?" I responded incredulously. "Look, this is a really big cup — I used …" and before I could say "three," the judgmental head-shaking started.
I think I’ll just end our review of this interview right here.
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Isn’t Cindi a diabetic? Seems that I read something like that some time ago. If so, that would certainly explain her anti-sugar fanaticism.
The big problem with her usual tendentious piece is that there is far more to obesity than just a single can of soda a day. I just looked at the dietary info on apple juice and orange juice. Both are 165 calories per 12 ounces (110 for 8 oz.) so if we stopped drinking those we could probably lose another 16.5 pounds each a year. Together with that can of soda, that puts us at almost 50 pounds down this year.
Drop the morning bowl of cereal (240 calories) and another 25 pounds would be gone. Skip the afternoon candy bar and yet another 25 pounds would be gone. Before you know it, for some of us there would be barely anything left on our bones. And then, of course, we could just repeat the same 50 to 100 pound drop the next year, and the next one and the next one.
Amazing what harebrained stuff people come up with when they have nothing better to do than read Food Nazi studies, isn’t it?
Is the above verbage intended to be an interview? You know, an interview – a verbal exchange designed to elicit inofmration that might be news to the readers? My God, what a waste of words.Why not let Scott write a letter himself?
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