Playing Victim Is as Cleansing as Showering

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays, OP-ED

Holly Mitchell, State Senate 30th District

Writing about state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City/Crenshaw District) is like studying the philosophy of the first philologist (1800-1850) in Rhode Island’s smallest community.

A remote personality seldom seen.

Obscure.

Distant.

Sen. Mitchell is a tourist who visits Culver City on the eve of almost every election to pay for her free return trip to Sacramento.

Sen. Mitchell’s Culver City profile is just slightly lower than Millerd Fillmore’s.

As a little girl, it seems the 50-year-old legislator learned a foolproof method for always getting her way in a cold, cruel world by sadly portraying.

She would portray herself as a lifetime victim.

So far, it has kept her employed.

After four years in the legislature, she is a member of the pack.

Crying “we are victims. We are entitled,” liberals clamber aboard the Entitlement Train every morning in Sacramento.

Balancing a Starbucks in one hand and a green, calorie-free lollipop in the other, the left-wing boys and girls from Enitlement Land bound inside, flounce down and spend their soft days squeezing all of everybody else’s money out of Sacramento coffers to give  to people allergic to work.

We have them by the millions, and Sen. Mitchell seems to know most of them.

Name the cause and it has mistreated her because she is a woman, she is black, she is single…and she is said to be searching for new grievances.

Her latest ploy to steal the people’s money and hand it out to those allergic pals of hers:

She is trying, as mightily as a liberal can, to repeal a central part of the welfare reform law – naturally.

Why work when you can collect without perspiring?

Sen. Mitchell is in warm pursuit of the “maximum family grant.”

Authored by semi-reasonably people, the law holds that a family on welfare may not collect additional money if they have another child (or children) while on the dole.

That would be the height of liberal arrogance, which is why Holly Baby loves it.

Friends say Sen. Mitchell has two rooms set aside for umbrages in her digs – because she takes one every day.

In the Sacramento Bee, Culver City’s almost senator was quoted as being outraged, her natural state.

As a liberal, she brayed that the law is “classist, sexist, anti-democratic, anti-family.”

Not to mention Auntie Mame, eh, Holly Baby?