If your child is running with The Mob, mama, do not fret. Your worries have ended. At least you know where to find him every Monday night — in Council Chambers.
To the consternation of true democrats (lower-case “d”) and other reasonable people, mob rule has hijacked the City Council the last two Mondays.
After the recent massive electoral loss by the Republican Party, it is amusing to see a suddenly embattled battalion of apparent winners reeling because, in the midst of hoisting He Who Is Without Sin to his rightful throne, they lost an oh-by-the-way fight over Prop. 8 and traditional marriage.
The best publicized — and most embarrassing — piece of data to emerge in the wake of Prop. 8’s victory was that 70 percent of black Californians voted to uphold traditional marriage.
One devoutly loyal liberal faction deserted a naive liberal faction that foolishly assumed liberals were monolithic in their beliefs.
Second of two parts (See ‘Culver City’s Own First Dude Is Worth Hearing Out,’ Nov. 10. Keywords: Bilson Davis.]
At breakfast on Sunday morning, my oldest son, my wife and I re-opened the question of whether it was valid for me to go against my personal grain and vote “no” on Prop. 8, purely for the benefit of another son, who is gay. Polling the table as the final traces of a runny, possibly jaywalking, egg disappeared from Diane’s plate, the vote was 3 to 0 to endorse my awkward but heartfelt vote.
He may cringe at the comparison, but Bilson Davis, engineer, onetime Culver City High School coach and lifetime black, reminds me of the First Dude of recent Republican fame — a temperamentally perfectly attuned husband to a power wife, in this case Saundra Davis of the School Board.
Everyone within shouting distance of City Hall knows that Vice Mayor Gary Silbiger wants the city to hire an animal control officer as badly as he wants the city to certify a youth advisory commission.
The trouble is that for the term and a half that he has been an elected official, Mr. Silbiger seldom if ever has acknowledged that any program he wants — and just has to have or he will hold his breath and turn blue — must endure a process. My goodness, man, did you just float in from the moon? This is how governments operate in the post-Adam and Eve Era.
Bernard Parks’ people probably should have rented out his campaign headquarters on Election Night to an itinerant mortician passing through the Crenshaw District.
Just as I am frustrated with my fellow Jews who sing one note every election, I presume that sensible blacks are equally exasperated with the low-hanging fruit in their community who consider it their cultural obligation to vote Democratic.
To the surprise of some friends, for intensely personal reasons, I voted “no” last week on Prop. 8, which would outlaw recently-certified same-sex marriage in California.
I would like my fellow Jews — who, contrary to the commonest sense at their cultural disposal, support Barack Obama — to digest the following and then justify their stance:
Isn’t it ironic that next Friday morning, three safe days after America may elect its own King Hussein I, the king’s newsmaking good pal, Prof. Rashid Khalidi, will be a principal speaker at academic anti-Semitic orgy on the Columbia University campus?
