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Show PAGE 7 fE ZEPHYRDECEMBER 1992 THE WIT & WISDOM OF JIMMIE WALKER Whatever else might be said, for Jimmie Walker, he never eems to be at a loss for words. His comments in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Los Angeles Times over the last three weeks alone have been so...memorable, that they deserve to be repeated and remembered. Here they are... On his defeat as a commissioner in 1988, and subsequent selfappointment as the Special Service Road District administrator. "These environmental ' obstructionists were celebrating back then, just like they are now. So I went out and made my own government" (with public monies...so far, about $750,000 ED.) ' On Grand County citizens who voted "for" the new form of government. "We've got a county of gypsies here. All you have to do is come down here in the summer, sleep under a cottonwood tree for 30 days, register to vote, then go about your business scumming and hoboing around the United States, but make sure you cast your absentee ballot in Grand County." "It hasn't got anything to do with government. There's nothing wrong with local government It has to do 'with hard-cor- e environmentalistsobstructionists and their inability to penetrate the government. .They're masters of deceit and deception." (LA. Times) On the future of the government change. "Nobody knows what's going on, so maybe the governor should declare martial law in Grand County...This has got folks up in arms.If you come to Grand County, bring your six-shoote- r." THE GANG OVER-THE-COUNT- ER oc all 259-700- COME TRY OUR NEW SANDWICH ITEMS: VEGffi SANDWICH STEAK SANDWICH PATTY MELT Open Daily 6AM to 10PM state liquor license 0 TUATS, -- TltewiT A |