Harrisburg City Councilwoman Sandra Reid has called for the resignation of Harrisburg Regional Chamber President Dave Black after the chamber played a pre-recorded skit lampooning the city's debt crisis during its annual awards ceremony last night.

Reid said the debt crisis is "not a laughing matter" and this morning

on Twitter she said

: "In response to the video presented by Dave Black ... I think it is time for him to resign from The Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce ... It is narrow minded thinkers like (Black) that stood on the sidelines and watched this city get exploited of their resources #resignation."

Reid said council was not invited to attend the annual awards ceremony that took place at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg in East Pennsboro Twp.

Mayor Linda Thompson's spokesman Robert Philbin said the mayor was not invited to the event, either.

The footage portrayed city officials as moochers looking for a bailout.

It played to a crowd of about 400 just after the ceremony started.

The video, part of a “Saturday Night Live” themed sketch, began with an unidentified woman playing Mayor Linda Thompson and an unidentified man playing her spokesman, Robert Philbin, discussing the city’s financial woes.

The fake Thompson wore a large, black weave, glasses and mimicked Thompson’s manner of speech, repeatedly blaming Harrisburg’s debt crisis on former Mayor Stephen R. Reed.

Instead of pronouncing the word city the correct way, she said “cit-ee” to mock Thompson’s pronunciation.

In the video, Black, chamber staff and several business leaders dressed as rock stars and performed their own version of the 1980s hit “We are the World.”t

The video version had a different title: “We are the Cit-ee.”

“We are the world, we are the cit-ee ... there’s a choice we’re making, our problems go unsolved. It’s true we’re asking for your cash,” they sang.

This link shows the advertisement the chamber used to promote the event.

It includes chamber representatives dressed in their "We are the Cit-ee" costumes.