Beatty is in jail now. When she’s released in April no one will care about poor Christine Beatty anymore. Washed up. Old news. Yesterday’s story. Perhaps, a few years from now, someone will do the obligatory where are they now? story about how Beatty is living out of a shopping cart. And there will be an obit when she kicks. But otherwise no one will ever care about Christine Beatty ever ever again.
It’s all kind of sad and stupid and, at the same time, hysterically funny. This whole ridiculous scandal continues to feel like that Bob Dylan tune Like a Rolling Stone. Invisible now…no secrets…how does it feel…etc. etc. A six minute single? It’ll never work.
Anyway, back to Beatty. After all this is her post. Her last one before she fades away into obscurity and poverty. She’s got three hots and cot in the Wayne County Jail and, given her finances, she’s going to be looking back on time jail sentence as the good times because she’s like three days away from the Rescue Mission. Her lawyers say Beatty has $6.00 in her checking account.
Six effing dollars! That’ll make it hard to make her $200 a month rug payment. Yep a rug payment. Like a month before the shit hit the fan, she bought a fancy rug on installment and every month she has to give the rug people $200. She also has a $2400 a month mortgage on a house that’s probably worth about $2400 and a $1200 monthly car payment. Then there’s the student loan payments, the credit card bills and the $726,000 she owes her lawyers. They were worth every penny. Eh boy.
If one wants to understand why the city’s budget is so royally FUBAR, take a look at the personal spending habits of the people in charge. For instance, former mayoral Chief of Staff Christine Beatty has a $200 a month rug bill. This is not the kind of person you want spending your tax dollars. Good rule of thumb, if you can’t pay cash for a rug then you can’t afford the rug. (Freep)
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