Mayor Mehaul O’Leary made an appointment to be interviewed this morning about his two-day jaunt last week to the annual Conference of Mayors – only it did not turn out so prosaically.
At 9 a.m. on the shining morning after presiding over a late-night City Council meeting, Mayor O’Leary sparkled as brightly as the welcome sun that was smiling upon the Senior Center.
Faultlessly attired in one of his favorite suits, Hizzoner appeared prepared to supervise a wedding, a funeral or a groundbreaking.
But the lord and master of Joxer Daly’s Irish pub clearly was not going to work.
After several undistinguished questions about his Irish-eyes-are-smiling glide through the nation’s Capitol with hundreds of other mayors, he was handed the following question:
“Did you get enough of a taste of Washington to want to go there professionally someday, say, as a member of Congress?”
Mayor O’Leary smiled puckishly.
“I never have restricted myself,” he said coyly.
“The possibilities for me are endless.
“I am even more motivated than before I went there.”
