[img]1969|right|Holly Mitchell||no_popup[/img]It takes a measure of hubris to write this story on the day after our colleague Tom Elias reported on the huge turnout of, ahem, newly registered Latinos – or somebody who looked like them – who thronged to the polls last November and voted to re-elect the President.
Since liberals believe anybody should be allowed to wander in from a soda stand or a bar and vote without showing a verifiable form of identification, you understand why there are so many Democrat officeholders.
That is slightly removed from today’s topic, the case of state Assemblyperson Holly Mitchell’s cynically calculated drop-dead election to Curren Price’s vacant seat in the state Senate. What happens a week from Tuesday, on Sept. 17, is smilingly labeled a special election.
For the last two months and five days in the farcical carousel that is California politics, Mr. Price has held down a Los Angeles City Council seat – the normal order of Dirty, Don’t Touch It that passes for the Los Angeles payoff political system.
The special election is a scandalous waste of money. Those who waste their votes on that day are not politically astute. They may suffer ADD.
Everyone who holds each Culver City seat in the state Assembly or Senate is a cartoon cutout, a frustrating Siamese twin of his predecessor or his successor.
Murgatroyd, a Room Full of Twins
It is like living in a community of idiots, first-cousins who roll over and mate with each other to create the next dumbkopf. They think alike. They talk alike. They espouse the same meaningless, time-wasting policies. But, hey, baby, they have a golden seat on the gravy train to Toonerville.
Ask those faces on the Los Angeles City Council who are as familiar to carousel watchers as Gov. Beanbag, on the dole his whole professional life.
If they were girls, this would be called a whorehouse, which it is.
It is a disgusting pile-on succession system in which friends hand off to friends, everybody’s pocket bulges with dirty booty, and all of them – grossly underworked and overpaid as they are – profit obscenely, sometimes for as long as an entire career.
The 120 shameless welfare cases in the state Legislature should report to Sacramento for one month of the year, and earn their own living the other 11 months.
When it is Ms. Mitchell’s turn to be elected to the Los Angeles City Council in a couple years, she will hand off to her successor in the Assembly or another willing soul who finds no need in his heart to draw an independent breath.