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Article: Simla mayor awaits promised apology Councilman has not made amends a month after his offending joke about town
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 16, 2004
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Remember that humorous passing reference Colorado Springs City
Councilman Tom Gallagher made to Simla while discussing long grass
last month?
Apparently, it's not so funny any more.
After Gallagher said city code shouldn't be changed to allow for
longer grass because the Springs would look like Simla, Mayor Lester
Berry called from the Elbert County town. He said he wanted an
apology from Gallagher and goodnaturedly offered to take him out for
a meal while getting it.
That was a month ago. Berry hasn't received his public apology
yet.
And he's not happy.
The head of the 650-person town wrote to Springs Mayor Lionel
Rivera recently, complaining of Gallagher's "rather juvenile approach
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