Marty, Iya, and Roger Get Roasted

Hot Seat: Democrats roasted former mayor Marty Blum and outgoing City Council members Roger Horton and Iya Falcone Friday night, January 22, pelting them with cracks about Travis Armstrong, Iya’s new motorcycle enthusiasm, and Horton’s railroad obsession.

But the biggest laugh of the evening came when Blum donned a silver fright wig and told how, back when she still got the Santa Barbara News-Press, she’d trudge down the driveway every morning to pick it up.

Then she’d sit down to read Armstrong’s latest diatribe. But the poison pen editorial page columnist’s anti-Blum invective just “made me stronger,” she told partiers at the Democratic Central Committee roast at Carr Winery on Salsipuedes Street. Then, to cheers from the Demos, she donned a Valkyrie headdress, complete with helmet and flying braids, and threw her arms in the air triumphantly. The crowd cheered.