Second in a series.
Re: “Wolkowitz Is ‘Curious’ About Next 4 Years”
The election of Donald Trump worries former Culver City Mayor Ed Wolkowitz more than a victory by any other presidential candidate.
Dipping into history, he quoted Mark Twain as saying, “No one’s life, liberty or property is safe when the Legislature is in session.”
“I firmly believe that,” said Mr. Wolkowitz, “having been on a very small legislature (the City Council) for eight years.”
And then there is the irony of it:
“Fortunately, most of us are incapable of doing very much, which usually is helpful. But with Mr. Trump, it is the idle word that concerns me a bit.”
Has the former mayor seen even a glimmer of a reason to be hopeful?
He cited President-elect Trump’s heavily publicized rescue of 1,000 jobs with the Carrier Corp. of Indiana.
“My sense is,” Mr. Wolkowitz said, “that the Carrier deal is a lot of fluff, intended to show his base he is doing something.
“The really interesting part will be if he gets the coal mines started again when the owners of the coal mines have told everyone it is just not possible to mine coal. But Trump promised he would get the coal mines working again. We will see what happens.”
Logic is being tested.
“With oil under $50 a barrel,” said Mr. Wolkowitz, “why would anyone in his right mind keep digging for another fossil fuel that is much more expensive to produce than oil right now.”
Finally, is climate change an authentic threat?
Without hesitation, the former mayor replied, all engines of his sense of humor humming.
“Donald Trump thinks it was a hoax created by the Chinese. I sort of think it was a hoax created by the Albanians.”
Out of office for a decade and a half, Mr. Wolkowitz plainly has remained a serious purveyor of all dimensions of news.
