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GLENDALE COUNCILMAN WITHDRAWS IDEA FOR INVITING KIM KARDASHIAN ONTO ROSE PARADE FLOAT
Glendale News-Press (California)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
December 4, 2012 Tuesday
by Brittany Levine, Glendale News-Press, Calif.
Dec. 04--Glendale Councilman Ara Najarian has pulled his request to
invite reality television star Kim Kardashian to ride atop the city's
Rose Parade float given that she's already booked for a New Year's
Eve event in Las Vegas.
The proposal was to be discussed by the full City Council Tuesday night
after Najarian was able to get it onto the agenda last week, contending
Kardashian's appearance would be a public relations boon for Glendale.
"I didn't want to put her in a position to turn down the city of
Glendale due to a conflict," Najarian said Monday.
Efforts to reach Kardashian's representatives were unsuccessful Monday.
This isn't the first attempt by Najarian to capitalize on Kardashian's
fame.
After Kardashian said in an episode of her sister's reality show,
"Khloe and Lamar," in April that she planned to run for the mayor of
Glendale -- especially given, she told her sister, that Glendale is
"like Armenian town" -- Najarian offered to make her his honorary
chief of staff so she could learn the ins and outs of City Hall.
Kardashian can't technically run for mayor since it's a ceremonial
position appointed among elected council members, but the interest
she showed in Glendale hasn't been forgotten.
But not everyone is onboard with pursuing the TV star. Najarian has
come under some fire since airing the float riding idea, some residents
even heckled him as he marched in the Montrose Christmas Parade.
Most naysayers, he said, didn't want Kardashian to ride on the float
because of what they contended was her questionable morality --
recall, sex tape -- and the fact that she doesn't live in Glendale,
Najarian said.
"I knew when I raised it, there would be a very remote chance she
would be there," he said.
Brittany Levine, Times Community News
Glendale News-Press (California)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
December 4, 2012 Tuesday
by Brittany Levine, Glendale News-Press, Calif.
Dec. 04--Glendale Councilman Ara Najarian has pulled his request to
invite reality television star Kim Kardashian to ride atop the city's
Rose Parade float given that she's already booked for a New Year's
Eve event in Las Vegas.
The proposal was to be discussed by the full City Council Tuesday night
after Najarian was able to get it onto the agenda last week, contending
Kardashian's appearance would be a public relations boon for Glendale.
"I didn't want to put her in a position to turn down the city of
Glendale due to a conflict," Najarian said Monday.
Efforts to reach Kardashian's representatives were unsuccessful Monday.
This isn't the first attempt by Najarian to capitalize on Kardashian's
fame.
After Kardashian said in an episode of her sister's reality show,
"Khloe and Lamar," in April that she planned to run for the mayor of
Glendale -- especially given, she told her sister, that Glendale is
"like Armenian town" -- Najarian offered to make her his honorary
chief of staff so she could learn the ins and outs of City Hall.
Kardashian can't technically run for mayor since it's a ceremonial
position appointed among elected council members, but the interest
she showed in Glendale hasn't been forgotten.
But not everyone is onboard with pursuing the TV star. Najarian has
come under some fire since airing the float riding idea, some residents
even heckled him as he marched in the Montrose Christmas Parade.
Most naysayers, he said, didn't want Kardashian to ride on the float
because of what they contended was her questionable morality --
recall, sex tape -- and the fact that she doesn't live in Glendale,
Najarian said.
"I knew when I raised it, there would be a very remote chance she
would be there," he said.
Brittany Levine, Times Community News