Sleazy is as sleazy does
Stop your crying about the shape of the country as you continue
to vote for sleazeballs. When you vote for sleazeballs on the
national or state level it doesn’t bother us much as it seems
removed from us. But when we vote for known sleazeballs on a local
level then when they are exposed yet again he taints others with
his lack of political propriety. Not one person who voted for Jaime
De La Cruz can deny they didn’t know that this San Benito County
supervisor played loose with the spirit of the law, if not the
letter of the law.
Sleazy is as sleazy does
Stop your crying about the shape of the country as you continue to vote for sleazeballs. When you vote for sleazeballs on the national or state level it doesn’t bother us much as it seems removed from us. But when we vote for known sleazeballs on a local level then when they are exposed yet again he taints others with his lack of political propriety. Not one person who voted for Jaime De La Cruz can deny they didn’t know that this San Benito County supervisor played loose with the spirit of the law, if not the letter of the law.
Now other supervisors are being questioned about their acceptance of donations and some of their answers are sadly laughable, “well, I’m not sure,” “well, I might have,” “yes, I did but as I tell them when they donate they did not buy me.” My favorite, though is those who accepted more than one $99 contribution from the same source as they don’t quite understand the $99 limit. If you receive more than one $99 gift from the same source then you didn’t receive $99. You received $198 or if you received three that’s $297. Is that such a hard concept for some supervisors to understand?
Hell, even my 10-year-old neighbor understood what it meant. I’m not saying some of the supervisors are as dumb as my 10-year-old neighbor but they’re not as smart, either.
Then there’s the local family that thinks they can throw an election fundraiser party and not declare it because they thought it was just like inviting a few friends over for the Super Bowl party. These people really think we’re so damned dumb we believe that.
When you wine and dine a hundred people at a fundraising party somehow that is a little different than having a couple friends over on Super Bowl Sunday for nachos, strippers and a few Buds.
But the funniest quote of all is one from Supervisor Reb Monaco. When asked about the law firm Lombardo and Gilles, Reb Monaco with a straight face says, “I can’t believe as big of a law firm as they are that they would try to hide anything.” Monaco is right: who in the world would believe that a big law firm would try to hide anything?
But sleazeballs have a way of making all those around them seem sleazy and some supervisors like standup comedians. Aye chee waa waa.
This is my favorite two weeks in Hollywood as they close down Hollywood Boulevard near the Kodak Theater in preparation for the Oscars. The tourists go nuts and those who didn’t time coming to Hollywood are nicely surprised as the giant Oscar statues are placed along the boulevard of the Walk of Fame.
Who should win the Oscars Sunday? That’s easy for me. Richard Jenkins for Best Actor in “The Visitor,” for Best Actress Melissa Leo for “Frozen River.” Two great performances in two uplifting films proving somehow that the individual human spirit can trump whatever the sleazeball politicians can throw at us.
By the way, those two nominated films that are just out on video: don’t miss Clint Eastwood’s brilliantly directed “The Changeling,” with Angelina Jolie in her Oscar-nominated role. She is my second favorite to win in a film that Eastwood masterfully captures the mass corruption of the Los Angeles Police Department as no other film has since “L.A. Confidential.” Jolie will break your heart but in the end give us the moxie to survive the sleazeball politicians here in Hollywood or Hollister.
Granny Goose is dead. Yes, actor Phillip Carey, who used to appear in those great ads for Granny Goose potato chips, died last week. In the ads, the rough, tough, good looking Carey, in a cowboy outfit and on a horse would save the school marm or dance hall “girl” and then open up a package of Granny Goose potato chips and announce to the fair maiden that his name is Granny Goose. I think he would have kept the women a little longer if he had said he was the Grand Goose. That’s only my opinion.
Love reading the Hollister High Baler newspaper, the best laid out newspaper in the United States. A special hooray to student writer Zachary Freitas and his article about Jack Kerouac. He at his age really caught the flavor of the rebel with a cause and one of the truly first beats, as in beatnik.
When I lived in San Francisco in the late 1960s my little bookstore attracted some of the original beats but they were mostly poets and while I didn’t appreciate their poetry I loved their stories, especially about Kerouac and Cassidy. Unless Zachary Freitas needs to starve to death I hope he never becomes a journalist, despite the fact that he is one of the best … just born about 40 years too late, Zachary.
Always leave them laughing. I cannot believe that a law firm as big as Lombardo and Gilles would try to hide anything.
