Twitterer Takes a Comic Shot at Dean
While Mayor Karl Dean continues his unabated bid for a second term, a Twitter cartoonist known as The County Seat has been taking some comedic shots at the mayor.
The latest one has Dean as Elvis crooning to mesmerize the local media. News2 was left out of the cartoon for whatever reason but The Tennessean and the City Paper are prominently displayed.
County Seat’s profile claim: “The World’s First Twitter Based Editorial Cartoon. Tennessee’s Cultural Barometer……It’s like listening to your Uncle Billy.” The cartoonist also has made some fun of Metro Council members as well. Outgoing Councilman Jamie Hollin was one target after his, um, interaction with Councilman Jim Gotto. The drubbing the Republicans dished out to the Democrats last year got a cartoon as well.
Note in the latest shot at Dean the red thong underwear being tossed at the mayor. We can’t decide if that is supposed to me strippers are for Dean in the hopes that he lightens up the five-year-old law considered onerous on strip clubs in Nashville.
Let’s say it does mean that. Supporters of altering the strip club law have chattered that may be one way of reigniting economic development. Attorney and former Metro Council member Adam Dread said recently that conventions have bypassed Nashville because the strip clubs aren’t what they used to be. Of course, tourism officials are reluctant to acknowledge that. Given the slump in convention and tourism business and the need to fill a new convention center, there’s a mild argument that amending the law could help bring more convention business. Obviously, that wouldn’t be the preferred sales point but one of the more subtle ones.
