[img]1979|right|Mark Ridley-Thomas||no_popup[/img]On the eve of his annual Empowerment Congress all day Saturday at Bovard Auditorium on the SC campus, mazel tov to County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas for two consecutive brave – and correct – calls that still may isolate him from important constituents.
It is too late now, but Mr. Ridley-Thomas probably should have stayed abed this dawn because nobody this side of the Little Sisters of the Poor can hope to side with the Normals three days running and survive in office.
The not-unbeaten Mr. Ridley-Thomas went against the most stentorian voices in the community when he argued that the LAUSD School Board, which often goes winless, should not act in an authoritarian manner in filling the seat of Marguerite LaMotte, who died a month ago at 80 years old.
The People chose every living member of the Board, and The People should choose Ms. LaMotte’s successor, Mr. Ridley-Thomas bravely said.
Downtown last evening, the School Board blindly, accidentally stumbled into the right sewer, voting 4 to 2 to select her successor by the democratic process, an election, probably in June.
Despite daily attempts by the best pal lazy Americans ever had, President Bozo J. (for Jobless) Obama, this is not yet a fiefdom, and democratic rule is supposed to prevail.
Yesterday also was Bozo Day at the Board of Supes – voting on a joint proposal by the normal members of the Board, Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe, to restore the cross to the County seal 10 years after the loons at the ACLU forced its subtraction.
Courageously, Mr. Ridley-Thomas spat into the clouded eyes of the girlymen and the manly ladies at the Los Angeles Titanic, and voted with the normies to put the cross where it belongs. His predecessor, who shall go nameless on this occasion, failed to grow a spine and voted with the loons, Chuckles Yaroslavsky and Murky Molina, in 2004 to kill the cross – before she piously sped off to say her prayers.
Hyperbole and subtleties aside, Mr. Ridley-Thomas executed uncommon political courage in rendering two of the shiniest verdicts of his lengthy career.
