Posted on 07/15/2004 2:34:36 PM PDT by EUPHORIC
When you gotta go, you gotta go - unless you're in town for the Democratic National Convention.
Party-hearty Democrats may have to hold it or commune with the great outdoors of downtown Boston, a fact that has city officials suddenly panicked.
Pols are terrified over the 11th-hour realization that Boston's handful of public toilets shut down at 5 p.m. sharp - long before the 35,000 convention-goers stagger into the streets after last call in local bars.
The specter is all the scarier because the images, and odors, are fresh from this year's public Super Bowl party, when portable johns were yanked off the streets for security reasons and reveling fans simply answered when nature called.
``The people who live around here, they're going to have people urinating in their back yards or against their walls or behind their businesses,'' City Councilor Maura A. Hennigan said. ``Very unpleasant.''
Hennigan and other councilors called yesterday for an emergency hearing on the lack of public restrooms in the city, but it was unclear whether it could be thrown together before the convention arrives in 12 days.
No relief is forthcoming from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who flatly refused to extend the hours of operations on the city's five coin-operated public toilet kiosks, which are located behind City Hall, at the New England Aquarium, in the Charlestown Navy Yard, at the Boston Public Library and at Puopolo Park in the North End.
Menino aides said any conventioneer with a bursting bladder can use the FleetCenter facilities during convention business hours, and would have to brave the barroom bathrooms after-hours.
``I think we can flush these fears away,'' Menino spokesman Seth Gitell said. ``We're confident that just like for a major sporting event, this city will be well-positioned in this area.''
Convention officials wanted nothing to do with the dicey issue.
``We're not responsible for putting port-a-potties all throughout the city,'' said Karen Grant, spokeswoman for Boston 2004, the convention's host committee.
I went to college in Boston and I did not even know they had kiosks. I assume that must be pretty disguisting. No big loss!!!
They have been doing it those of us out here in fly-over country for quite some time now!
How is this different from the behavior of typical Democrats any other time??
We're not responsible for putting port-a-potties all throughout the city,'' said Karen Grant, spokeswoman for Boston 2004, the convention's host committee.
So typical of the Liberal mentality-- create the problem but leave the public to solve it and to pick up the tab.
Well, I don't see what the panic is about - the Left Wing has been sh***ing all over everything for decades...
Glad to see this information leak out.
There's always the Big Dig. We've been pissing money away in that hole in the ground for years.
If they are anything like the ones in Pittsburgh---you won't go there, so to speak.
No,they aren't disgusting, They are the self cleaning kind like they've had in Europe for years,,but they must be a security nightmare.
In Boston bars and clubs must close at 2 am. The Demos wanted an exemption for the convention to have the bars open all night and morning. Supposedly Merino said no. Some delegate from LV complained he is use to living in a 25 hour city!!!
On sale,DEPENDS FOR THE DEMS!!!!!!
I predict the democratic convention will be full of s***.
That cool. I am surprised they got installed. NYC wanted to install them but the disability activists threated to sue because the small ones could not accomdate a wheelchair and the bigger ones tended to get occupied by homeless and prostitutes.
This actually is a series problem. Don't you realize just how much excrement the typical DemonRAT produces in a day? All of New England can expect to be waist-deep in sewage if this isn't solved.
Republicans stand up and urinate. Democrats have to sit on the toilet for both #1 and #2.
So 8 million people are penalized because of a few----unbelievable!!!
Yeah!! and you know how those Dems are "full of it".
Hey, this will not be a problem!! No, no, come on over to one of Kerry's palaces and feel free to use the facilities! No, no, no problem at all. That's what a man of the people does!
Kerry looks seriously constipated most of the time, so it shouldn't be a problem for him.
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