JULY 3, 2004 --

LPR chanced to spot former Vermont Governor and Democratic Presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Lexington Avenue, the morning of July 2, in front of the D'Agostino's Supermarket, between 83rd and 84th Street. Had Gov. Dean prevailed in the Democratic race, it is highly unlikely that 1) He would have been shopping in an east side supermarket, and 2) that he would have been easily approachable by a stranger with a camera.

Thinking the matter over, later in the day. LPR concluded that Gov. Dean should continue his political career by seeking the mayoralty of the City of New York. Perhaps Gov. Dean is the person, having such a liberal reputation, to scrape away the growing encrustation of rules, regs. and regimentation on New Yorkers. This is, now, truly Regulation City. It took the Republican Richard Nixon to go to China. Perhaps it will take a liberal to remove the yoke of rules from the people of New York.

LPR wonders how the driver of a car with Florida plates felt about getting his car towed early one recent morning, from Central Park West and 86th Street. And while the crackdown on drivers continues, street conditions worsen. LPR noticed that the hole on 84th Street, between Park and Lexington was still there Saturday, July 3, a couple days after LPR first spotted it.

There is, of course, no guarantee that Howard Dean would be an improvement over the Finemeister, but perhaps Dean as mayor, would not spit at the Declaration of Independence, July Fourth weekend by sending out "swarms of officers, to harass our people, and eat out their substance." In the City of New York, such officers include parking violations personnel who ticket cars for $65 or $115. LPR was going to denounce this violation by City Hall and the local pols who let City Hall do it, of a key provision of the Declaration of Independence, --- even if LPR had not received a $65 ticket on Lexington Avenue, July 3, for not putting another 25¢ in the meter fast enough. AND REMEMBER, IN HUDSON, NY, PARKING METERS NEED NOT BE FED ON WEEKENDS!