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  • Vancouver, Wash., mayor smashes coffee mugs in bid for respect

    07/14/2005 5:40:01 PM PDT · by hiho hiho · 13 replies · 497+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) ^ | July 13, 2005 | The Assocated Press
    VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Mayor Royce E. Pollard didn't find what he wanted at one Starbucks, so off he went to another, paid $20 and change for two Portland, Ore., souvenir mugs and smashed them to bits. Pollard's stunt Tuesday was part of his campaign to get more respect for a city in the dual shadow of its much larger neighbor across the river from Portland and its even larger namesake 250 miles to the north in British Columbia. After bashing the mugs against each other inside a garbage can by the front door and picking up the few pieces that...