When Your Mayor is Dressed in Drag

Stu Rasmussen used to be a guy.  Now Stu Rasmussen is best known as Carla Fong.   Stu as Carla wears plunging neckline dresses and mini-skirts.   Stu or Carla is sixty years old, so even on a good day and with movie star looks being sixty and wearing mini-skirts is a questionable strategy.   Especially when you look like Stu, who also happens to be mayor-elect of Silverton, Oregon.  Talk about “change.”

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, Stu had been elected Silverton’s Mayor in 1988 and again in 1990.  He just won again.  Looking at his photos, augmented breasts and notable cleavage or not, Stu has radio looks.   Stu/Carlas photo reminds me of the quote now deceased  and noted author Truman Capote issued when appraising the now equally deceased and noted author, Jacqueline Susann.   Capote declared,  “she looks like a truck driver in drag.”

While Capote’s quote elicits certain emotions about Stu/Carla, I really don’t regard his image as the truck driver in drag.   He is more reminiscent of one of the more senior English actresses in one of the uptight, upright, Merchant-Ivory Victorian costume dramas.    Or he could be the gracious Earth Mother emanating from the Hippie Period of Stu’s generation.    But then again I don’t live in Silverton and see Stu on the street on a regular basis.  If I did, I may have other opinions.

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I will assume until better notified that Stu must find it tough to shop for the wardrobe he prefers in the tiny town of Silverton.   Shopping for high fashion in Portland is tough enough, yet alone Silverton.   In the past, for transgenders and drag queens alike, this would be a problem resolved only by scheduled trips to the larger cities.   Today, with the Internet, shopping for the heels, plunging necklines and minis is just a click or two away.   Thanks to ecommerce, even buying for the odd-sized is made easy.

As for the important stuff, Stu ran on the promise he would help stem the rapid growth in Silverton.  Perhaps his serving as the leader of the welcome wagon would serve to cause many potential transplants relocation to Silverton.   Not everyone is tolerant as we last saw in California’s recent proposition to ban gay marriage. But then, perhaps Stu will draw a crowd to the city.  You never know.

While I’m sure some are upset about the new mayor’s fashion statement, let us not forget that Stu was elected to office with an overwhelming 55% of the vote.   Politicians would kill for that margin.   Some have.   So it is understood that people in this former lumber town not only tolerate Stu, but they like him.   They not only like him, but they trust him.   Which is more than most citizens can say for their local elected officials.   And that says a lot.   About Stu.  And Silverton, the town where he serves as mayor.

Author: Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic behavior in the late twentieth century. He has recently published The Cuban Quarter, The Blood Orange, and The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He is the author of The Constant Travellers. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.