Few mayors achieve even temporary nationwide celebrity. One who did, by way of a symbolic gesture, is Eddie Favre, 8-term mayor of Bay St.Louis, Mississippi, a city hit very hard by Hurricane Katrina.
As was the case with so many of his fellow townspeople, Favre's house was destroyed by the storm, leaving the bachelor mayor, literally, with only the clothes on his back, and, one hopes, front.
When the storm struck, Favre was wearing Bermuda shorts. He promised not to wear long pants again until his town had returned to something approaching normal. The portly mayor appears to have been true to his word. To a Radio & Television Correspondents' Association banquet in Washington, D.C., in 2006, he wore his familiar shorts and a tux jacket, even though he was there with President George W. Bush.
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