Mumbles grumbling about hookah-hogwash

By Jim Stergios
October 7th, 2008

This blog entry should be a line item analysis of whether the state can afford to pass Question 1 and whether the sky will fall. But how can you be serious when you discover the cause of the Mayor’s mumbling? Kurt Nickish of WBUR lodges this report on Q1, and he gets in a pro, a con, a Carla Howell, and then the Mayor of our Fair City, as Click and Clack put it.

Why does the Mayor mumble? He is spending too much time at Hookah bars. How else to explain this exchange?

NICKISCH: The prospect of an income tax repeal has some government officials threatening to raise property and sales taxes instead. Here’s Boston Mayor Tom Menino:

MAYOR TOM MENINO: Don’t let people fool you; we don’t have to pay taxes. That’s a lot of hookah-hogwash. You pay one way or the other. It costs money to run government. It costs a lot of money to run government.

Now question number one is, what is he smoking?