UPDATE - July 31. Difficulty with a photo - Ramsey's Mayor, Tom Gamec, pointing at a map of the Town Center area, earlier in time, with two citizens attentively watching (a photo which is not available via Blogger now) had been a lead-in to the post - pointing with his right hand. The above photo, from the city website, is substituted. For those who do not know what the mayor looks like.
Yes, it is the right arm, injured shoulder, operation and arm in a sling for the mayor. Like me, he is left-handed so he can still sign papers. We are a minority discriminated against - doors and appliances are designed and placed to favor the comfort of the right-handed majority. Look at words - Latin and French - for left and right. Left-handers -- sinister and gauche. Right handers -- dexterous and adroit. Left-handers have rights too, you know.
In any event, don't speculate the investigative feds were twisting arms.
I had a chance to speak with the mayor, and he says it was a slip and fall accident at his lakefront property up north - on the boat dock - that put his arm in a sling.
One of my most memorable recollections of the mayor at a council meeting - televised - was when a gentlement showed up at the back of the firehouse meeting room, and Tom called the two young ladies with him up to the citizens' microphone, not during citizens input, to briefly say hello. One, a young Russian woman with a pleasant accent, said she looked forward to becoming a citizen. It was perplexing, in a way, as such a pleasant exchange seemed to be disconcerting or discomforting to the City Administrator, while others simply were tolerant of the diversion from City business. Ostensibly without connection to any city business, it was - interesting.