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As long as public stupidity is not outlawed, arrogant, desperate politicians will try to loudly kill off their own campaigns with displays of appalling wrongheadedness.
And then proclaim purity of thought.
Christopher Armenta, one of the nicest persons ever to don a political mantle, has just foolishly dived into a steaming vat of jelly-brained gunk, and emerged drooling, dripping a foul odor that would make a noseless man scream.
Mr. Armenta should not only fire but fine the person responsible for the most ignorant political scheme to douse Culver City since – well, since the Teachers Union slyly took gas in late October. The union underhandedly tried to hornswoggle voters with two sleazy mailers that may have ruined the re-election chances of Karlo Silbiger, not to mention further hurting the chances of his running mates.
In a special runoff election on Dec. 3 to fill the state Assembly seat formerly held by now state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City), Mr. Armenta is matched against perhaps the hottest – and smartest – young rookie politician in the state, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, most recently an aide to Curren Price (D-Culver City) in the state Senate before Mr. Price also won a promotion.
One month out, there is enough distance between the extremely gifted 26-year-old Mr. Ridley-Thomas and Mr. Armenta to insert California, Texas, Russia, Rhode Island and Mr. Armenta’s favorite toothbrush.
Sounding like a Miami pro football player, the cover page of Mr. Armenta’s ill-advised mailer bellows belligerently “Nepotism is not democracy.”
Better that he should have stripped a diagonal line across the covered that shouted “I Am Stupid, and You Cannot Change My Mind.”
Usurping most of the gall normally found in France, Mr. Armenta accuses Mr. Ridley-Thomas of unmeritoriously gaining his candidate status because his father is nearly the most significant politician in Southern California.
Such a silly charge only could have been made by someone who has spent the last five years reading comic books while Mr. Ridley-Thomas industriously was applying his numerous cerebral gifts and broadening his generous foundation of knowledge and wisdom.
On page 2 of the mailer, Mr. Armenta does his puerile best to smear the Ridley-Thomas family.
Laughably for Jews, Mr. Armenta complains that Election Day arrives in the middle of Chanukah – the Torah equivalent of arguing that Election Day falls in the heart of Arbor Day.
When you are not serious, this is what a guy does when he is trailing 200-0 with one minute left in the campaign.
