Linda Lay, Working Woman
Linda Lay's New Store
How does the Chron do it? Just when I think it can't top its idiotic cheerleading for all things Houston (especially on this day), Mary Flood comes out with a puff piece on Linda Lay's new business venture: an elite secondhand shop for those poor Enron executives who need to sell some of their furnishings (to pay their legal bills?).
Linda's just a down-to-earth working stiff like the rest of us Houstonians. At least according to her publicist, whom Flood quotes adoringly:
"She's worked all her life," Kimberly said of Lay, who once worked for her husband at Enron.I can't wait to see what Connelly does with this one.
(Update) The Chron puff piece generated some hostile letters. I'm not sure why Dennis Oakes is under the impression, however, that the Chron is "one of America's great newspapers." Greatness must be measured differently in League City, TX.
[Posted at 20:41 CST on 04/30/02] [Link]
