Aspel returns to the dais after surgery
Councilman Steve Aspel Councilman Steve Aspel had only been out of the hospital 48 hours following a ten day stay that included major cancer surgery and a nasty little bout with E. Coli bacteria when he made the mistake of turning on Channel 8. The City Council was going at it. Aspel had barely worn clothes in 12 days, but he quickly scrambled to get dressed and get down to City Hall. He explained to his wife Pam that he had to get to the meeting in case they needed a tie-breaking vote. “I told my wife, ‘I am going down there,’” Aspel said. “She said, ‘No, you are not.’” The couple celebrated their 20th anniversary the day before he went into the hospital for a reason. Pam talked; Aspel listened. He stayed home. But a week later – last Tuesday – nothing was keeping Aspel from his place on the dais. The activist group Building a Better Redondo – with whom Aspel has quarreled mightily – had scored a victory in court over the city. Aspel wanted his opponents to have the satisfaction of looking him in the face after their legal triumph. “I wanted to be there because BBR won that lawsuit,” Aspel said. “I knew they’d come there and gloat, and I figured I’ve got to be man enough to sit…
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