Jack Kingston: “A story of one of your freshmen colleagues really fits in there, and that is that of Sonny Bono, one of your better…”

“A story of one of your freshmen colleagues really fits in there, and that is that of Sonny Bono, one of your better known freshmen. He tells the story of leaving Hollywood and going to Palm Springs to start a restaurant. He needed to make some changes in the building that he bought and so forth. So he went down to the city hall to get building permits, thinking that he was going to be creating jobs and additional tax revenues and all kinds of positive things for the area that they would say ``Mr. Bono, we are so happy to have you in here, we need entrepreneurs, employers. This is a great boost for our economy.'' Instead, he was given the runaround. ``Why do you need these permits? How have you chosen the contractor who is going to do the work?'' They started nickeling and diming him and micromanaging the project. He thought it was going to take 15 minutes. Six months later he still had not gotten his permits for his building, the renovation and building permits, from the city there.”