[img]1294|right|Christopher Armenta||no_popup[/img]When now controversial state Assembly candidate Christopher Armenta sent out his strongly criticized mailer last week, belittling his main rival in the race toward Dec. 3, it appears that his people divided recipients of the hit piece by race.
White people get this one.
Black people get that one.
All politicians have strategists who target certain groups. Otherwise, they would go broke in the first mailing if they sent to everyone.
In the Armenta mailer that sought to humiliate his opponent, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, as a lifeless, inexperienced, cynical tool in the wily, manipulative hands of his father, the powerful County Supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Sources tell the newspaper that bold as the move may have been, Mr. Armenta would not have dared to send this attack piece into the homes of black residents of the 54th Assembly District since the Ridley-Thomas family not only is respected but admired.
“The Armenta campaign apparently did not send their discredited attack mailer to voters in Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, or the Crenshaw District,” a source told the newspaper this morning. “We have found no evidence of voters in those areas having received the widely criticized mailer. It appears to have been sent exclusively to households in Culver City and West. L.A.”
A separate party said that “Chris needs the support of Latinos and Jews if he is going to force a runoff in February. That was why he made the allusion, silly though it was, to Chanukah.”
One more irony is lingering.
“It appears,” said a separate source, “as though Mr. Armenta adheres to the ancient proverb, ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’”
Of all people, Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks has been heard on robocalls for Mr. Armenta. “He mentions the Dept. of Water and Power supporting Sebastian and how they will raise the rates,” a source reported.
Why?
Five years ago, Mr. Parks ran for Supervisor against Mark Ridley-Thomas and lost.
