[img]1|right|||no_popup[/img]The four biggest political knee-slappers of recent years:

• Holly J. Mitchell (D-Culver City).
• Curren D. Price (D-Culver City).
• Karen Bass (D-Culver City).
• Maxine Waters (D-Culver City).

Ms. Bass would have to borrow Shrek’s three latest GPSs to find Culver City – after she learned from passersby what state it is in.

None of these farcical legislators covered Culver City any more than they affected Honolulu, even though I was guilty of writing those formulations thousands of times.

Three of the four are unusually nice people, but then so was my late grandmother, may she rest in peace.

They smile.

They are attractive.

And they talk as if they are secretly funneling money to you because you like them.

All four are more useless and less productive than a photograph of a dinosaur.

My Grandmother did have something critical in common with the Four Farces. She never made it to Culver City during her 94 years. Effectively, none of the Four Farces did, either.

Oh, they all have short-fused tempers that they readily employ when you lay this eminently supportable charge on their empty little shoulders.

But if you can find that any of the Four Zeroes did more than buy gas in Culver City, count yourself more knowledgeable than any denizen of City Hall.

On the eve of Tuesday’s special election to replace (?) Ms. Mitchell In the state Assembly, the favored Sebastian Ridley-Thomas is the first state-type politician in this century not only to show an interest in Culver City affairs but precise insider knowledge.

If he sneezes on Wednesday, he will surpass Ms. Mitchell’s immodest accomplishments.

The bar is low, but promises and hope are high that he will be the first politician to authentically represent Culver City.

We are watching.