[img]2444|right|Sen. Rod Wright||no_popup[/img]At state Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas’s community swearing-in rites 10 days ago at West Los Angeles College, I spent a most congenial hour sitting beside state Sen. Rod Wright (D-Inglewood).
Naturally, he did not come alone. His constant companion is his trademark fedora. Hooray for him.
This was just hours before a jury convicted him on eight counts of perjury and jury fraud. – making him sound like Chuck Manson, Bill (Admire My Rapier Wit) Clinton, the Presidential rapist, and Michael Moore, all pie-doughed into one odiously unpleasant human, who probably suffers from bad breath, too.
Justice is remarkably uneven, as many black, white and brown adults know. That is this afternoon’s subject. Like a downtown tramp, Sen. Wright may be tossed into a prison cell for years for fibbing about where he actually lived in representing voters who adore him. Sort of like getting the electrified seat for jaywalking in an abandoned part of town after midnight.
Never mind today’s essay by the race-based, histrionically shallow sob sister Sandy (I Ain’t Money in the) Banks on page 2 of the journalistic whorehouse, the Los Angeles Titanic. Consulting her under-occupied mind en route to a city park restroom, Ms. Banks, following 20 seconds of deep research, called for Sen. Wright’s neck.
I would drive the car to deliver Sen. Wright to a dank prison home if the stinko case were not rife with, oh, my, traditional Democrat party hypocrisy. Unsophisticated state legislative Dems, like the low-wattage voters who put them in office, carefully choose who they will punish and who they will go wink-wink to. The law be darned.
Anyone Seen Bekins, Boys?
Sen. Wright possesses much less heft, for example, than Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, whom the Titanic accused of moving around more often than Sponge Bob. That is why he will be looking at bars from the opposite side of the much better connected Ms. Burke.
Retired state Sen. Gloria Romero, now a weekly columnist for the Orange County Register, wrote a brilliant treatment of the Wright case this morning.
This is important because the education reformer is a Democrat.
On the way to the prison yard where haughty (and safe) Democrat legislators are betting on how long Sen. Wright can dangle from a yard arm without going out of breath, Ms. Romero tries to be the naughty boys’ conscience before it is too late.
A case of them that has pull vs. them that don’t.
Ms. Romero reminds her readers of one of God’s lesser creations, the smelly, periodically insane state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles). He has tried to pass more garbage regulation than America’s most dishonest politician.
For reasons that will be evident in Ms. Romero’s account that follows, it is my heaviest hope that Sen. Wright’s conviction is overturned.
Ms. Romero said, in part:
“(Mr.) de Leon may have his own residency controversy to explain. When he filed to run for the Assembly in 2006, de Leon’s ‘domicile,’ some said, appeared to be the couch of former Assembly Speaker Fabien Nunez, a Los Angeles Democrat who recruited him to relocate from Northern California. De Leon’s opponents challenged the legitimacy of his residency. Worried that de Leon may be faltering, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa endorse de Leon and helped Nunez raise a million dollars to prop up his candidacy.
“One de Leon opponent, longtime district resident Elena Popp rightfully called it ‘an old boys’ network.’ At the very least, it was a distasteful magical carpet (bag) ride.
“Where were the FBI and district attorney then?
“After de Leon vacated his Assembly seat, he supported current Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles), who also immediately faced residency challenges. A 2012 YouTube video captures him giving three answers about where he lived, finally laughing, ‘I move a lot.’”
Kindly don’t bother me with the popcorn misdemeanor of Sen. Wright.