About 100 men and 12 women, reeking of assorted Calvin Klein colognes, marched through downtown to the Hilton Hotel yesterday where they convened with another dozen to join the ranks of hundreds wanting to speak at the first hearing on the proposed cuts to PAT bus routing.Curtis Slogan, who marched on the front line with another protester carrying a banner that read, "Make a new plan, Dan," says he will face financial hardship if 51C service is scaled back, because he will then have to “pay for dates and flowers and stuff.”
“Do you know how much it is to take a girl out to dinner, man? I can’t afford a girlfriend. I need a way to cut out after a night of knockin' boots, and I ain’t usin’ no Chevrolegs. It's cold out there. Hell, sometimes I'm so far out, I need a transfer. That's a long way to have to walk without having to musk up again,” shouted Slogan, to cheers from the crowd.
Peter Portsmouth, who says he’s had “about 14 girls in the past three months,” concurred. “Why is it everyone’s worried about the elderly? It’s always the elderly and the disabled. We need equal representation, too. I don’t want to be stranded with some broad that may have looked good when I was drunk, but you know, not so good the next morning. That’s the kind of stuff that messes with a guy’s head. Now that‘s undue hardship.”
County Executive Dan Onorato said he and other leaders are doing the best they can to take everyone's needs into consideration. "This isn't easy for any of us," he told the media. "Apparently, it's not easy for the easy, either."
