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Fife Symington's Just Desserts

By AAN Staff
may 16, 2003  03:58 pm
Fife Symington's Just Desserts
In any other universe, the concept of a disgraced former governor reinventing himself as a pastry chef -- and then siccing his high-powered Washington, D.C. lawyer on a newspaper that called him a "criminal" in a restaurant review -- would be too surreal for words. "But, hey, this is Arizona, a true alternate universe where J. Fife Symington, the only governor ever to resign from office following a conviction on felony bank-fraud charges, really did start whipping up desserts to die for after an appeals court threw out his case on a technicality," Phoenix New Times Editor Rick Barrs reports. Symington was pardoned by "that Krispy Kreme-eatin' bastard Bill Clinton" ... And really did get his tortes in a knot and make noises about suing after a Phoenix New Times food critic had the audacity to use the "c" word -- and we ain't talkin' "cheesecake" -- in a discussion of the various ways one can roll in dough."
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