Now, How Much Would You Pay to Eat Lunch With Mayor Tom Leppert?

By Robert Wilonsky Fri., Sep. 11 2009 at 10:15 AM

Categories: News

Patrick Michels

I only ask because the Dallas Zoological Society, which is now operating the Dallas Zoo, is auctioning off a date with Mayor Tom as part of its Zoo to Do 2009 Gone Wild! fund-raising event, which runs through September 30 -- so act now! Let's see what you get for your money well spent: "For this unique opportunity, lunch will be held in the Mayor's dining room." The item's guesstimated to be worth $1,000, and right now the bidding's half that.

A few of us are currently searching beneath sofa cushions to raise the dough -- turns out, you can bring five friends (and split the cost). But the Friend of Unfair Park who sent the item our way does have a point: Would you rather break bread with the mayor or vomit while riding shotgun in a Russian MiG-21 Trainer as a pilot performs "rolls, loops, wing-overs, high-G turns, rapid vertical climbs and dives" over the city? Thought so.

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Me and my friends, Swine Flu, Listeria, Salmonella and E-coli, could leave him with a lunch date he wouldn't soon forget.
I just think it's too bad the winner can't choose the venue, I'd love to have lunch with the Mayor on a really rainy day at Five Sixty so he can explain why he thinks building a major road in what is now the river is a good idea.
Not to be overly pedantic but the more desireable option of vomiting while riding shotgun in a Russian MiG-21 Trainer is a bit misleading. The jet is actually an Aero L-39 Albatros, a 40-year old jet built in Czechoslovakia. While students may have flown (in) an L-39 and later flown a real MiG-21, the trainer version of a MiG-21 is called a MiG-21U (U for Uchebnyy/Training). I guess it's much more impressive to say "I vomited in a MIG" rather than "I vomited in a Albatros".
I would hope a coalition of reporters, including our own D.O., would bid on the lunch. Of course, your certain victory would be thwarted the political machine's walk around money. I wonder if the Mayor "would be comfortable with that"?
Why not just put him in a cage at the zoo? I'd pay to see that...
I'll pay $5, but I expect to get at least a $20 meal out of the bargain.
Hey, the Dallas Zoo VIP Cart tour is truly awesome - I've been on it before. You get to go behind the scenes in the animal areas where the zoo workers go.
I'd like to have lunch with him and give him my thoughts on the whole Trinity tollroad fuck up.
Give me the MiG-21, anytime. But the pic on that page pimping the joyride is of an L-39 trainer, not a MiG-21... ?
OUR douchebag, that's who. OUR sweet, freakish long-fingered douchebag. happy dallas to you all.
Top bidder is �mattfeldman.� http://www.cmarket.com/auction/item/Item.action?bidHistory=&id=92851894 Could it be this guy? http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewfeldman How �bout him? http://www.facebook.com/Mr.MattFeldman Maybe this �local legend�? http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/parkcities/stories/DN-dooleycolumn_24cen.ART.Central.Edition1.50a49c7.html Or perhaps it's both former <em>Observer</em>�er Matt Pulle and current one Megan Feldman?
Triathletes wear Oakleys. Lie-pert is the ultimate non-athlete. I'm sure some wannabe suck-up will pay lots of dough to dine with His Mendaciousness. This city's full of those types.
Is this some sort of threat?
rofm...a douchebag named Tom?
If I ran a string of tanning salons........
What douchebag still wears Oakley M-Frames?