Xavy Becerra spent 24 quiet seasons in Washington as a harmless, mousy Los Angeles congressmen.
Only his wife, children and taxman knew he was there.
His chin, typically, reposed closest to his belly button.
When erratic, crudity-prone Kammy Harris, the state attorney general, decided a U.S. Senate seat – which she won last November — was her quickest route to the White House, Xavy was invited home to resuscitate his career.
The proffered proposition:
Serve out the final months of the foul-mouthed Ms. Harris’s attorney general term, and then run for governor next year since Jerry Brown mercifully is term-limited.
Over a tidy breakfast of nails and claw hammer one recent morning, Mr. Becerra became convinced he had to shuffle his deck of invisibility and subtract his soft-boiled image.
Mr. Becerra believes political correctness should become the new First Commandment.
Suddenly savvy Zavy sounded a siren for gays and their sexual allies.
In a move designed to lock up the already assured gay vote next year, Blunderbuss Becerra glanced at the Constitution, giggled and issued a travel ban.
As a Democrat, a so-called minority and the son of immigrants, Mr. Becerra is an unshakeable believer in the joys of victimhood.
Declaring gays and their sexual comrades as permanent victims of American bias, Mr. Becerra ruled that no California government employee may travel to four states that he claims are bigoted against gays.
Since our state government is not known for forward thinking, this may be a good thing.
The four lucky states are South Dakota, Alabama, Kentucky and Texas.
The Becerra ruling came as a disappointment to mainstream Democrats. They have unanimously opposed the smell of any travel ban since President Trump first proposed one last winter. Dems began to cave when Mr. Becerra assured them that some Muslims are gay.
Two minutes after the Becerra Ban was announced, Democrat ranks shattered.
Gay state Sen. Ricardo Lara, am uh, Democrat, burped and announced awkwardly from the banned state of Texas that, uh, he, uh, was, uh, in, uh, Texas for the annual conference of the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
In a pilgrimage of self-ordained gay and illegal alien victims, Mr. Lara rationalized that “it was important to join other Latino leaders and show California’s example.”
Of what?
With his rule being prominently flaunted, the attorney general, last seen, was mopping stale egg from his face.
Mr. Becerra, meanwhile, argued that he needed the attention even a bad rule brings if he is going to run for the governor’s job next year against Antonio Villaraigosa.