Offense Best Defense

In Springfield's ongoing battle to keep the 183rd Fighter Wing from flying the coop and going to Ft. Wayne, IN, Mayor Davlin has gone street and started trash talking those thievin' Hoosiers. Or at least that's what I was hoping when I read this headline in today's SJ-R:

Fort Wayne shortcomings emphasized

Yeah! Let's talk about how those Mo-Fo's are no good for our proud and brave 183rd. Let's crap all over them. Or maybe just do this:

When it decided to recommend sending the jets and jobs of Springfield's 183rd Fighter Wing to Fort Wayne, Ind., the Pentagon failed to consider a number of shortcomings there, Mayor Tim Davlin said Monday.

He cited the need for Fort Wayne International Airport to build a chemical-production facility, more stringent air quality standards in Allen County, Ind., and limitations on the Fort Wayne base's expansion capabilities.

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The need for Fort Wayne to build a $500,000 hydrazine servicing facility was among the new information the delegation presented to bolster its case for keeping the 183rd here. The military value of the servicing facility had not been factored into the Pentagon's recommendations, Meyer said.

The article doesn't say but I suspect Davlin went on to say, "What LOOOSERS! No hydrazine servicing facility? What kind of backward-ass community do those Ft. Waynians have up there? Do they even have running water? And that city smells, you ever been there? HOOOO-WEEEE. BRAC members I deplore you: DO NOT send our fighting men an women to this devil's outpost." Or something.