Second of two parts.
Re: “Stooges Make Comeback on Bored of Supervisors”
In reviewing the latest objectionable performance by the almost obscenely powerful and frequently overlooked County Bored of Supervisors, we are inspecting old-fashioned dilettantes.
Boys and girls living out their pressure-free slowing-down years, playing – and we do mean playing — dream roles of the idle rich.
Remember how puffy-chested you felt the last time you were winning at Monopoly, all of those yellow and blue dollars lying in front of you?
This is singular sensation that courses through the heavily seasoned bodies of these spoiled playgirls and playboys.
We are talking archly disciplined, finely tuned bones, the Mercedes Benzes of humanity.
Every morning when they report for duty sharply at whatever hour is convenient for them, their drivers, their makeup people and their masseuses, Don and Mark and Mike and Sheila and Hilda take a seat on the floor and start playing.
Each supervisor has a $3.4 million annual budget to play with in any manner he or she chooses. They are nothing if not financially creative.
Nearly all of them are beholden to thick-throated thugs from the labor movement for the pots of gold that allowed them to be elected to these exalted chairs.
After Mr. and Mrs. Clean of the almost-sinless County Federation of Labor successfully bullied the Los Angeles City Council last year into raising the minimum pay for certain hotel workers, this year it is the turn of the Bored of Supervisors to go down on their knees to labor.
Playing the roles of the idle rich, the idle politicians called for three separate studies to determine whether raising the minimum wage countywide would be damaging, as normal people have been telling them for years.
Two of the three studies advised against increasing it ultimately to $15.25 an hour by ’19. Hmmm. What does a smart guy do when he is sinking deeper into a hole. If he is a Bored of Supervisor, he resumes digging.
Two out of three say don’t raise the minimum wage.
To the well-honed Bored, that was a signal to proceed unimpeded, which is how hard left-wingers think.
Rookie Bored member Sheila (I Am So) Kuehl, heavily beholden to labor, not only agreed, Sheila Baby, thumbing her nose at discipline, as she used to do in Sacramento, was downright inspired by the apparent defeat.
“Keeping digging, boys,” she bellowed. And they did.
Sheila Baby had a co-conspirator, Hilarious Solis, who was asked to play U.S. Secretary of Labor for a couple seasons, just after passing a test almost spelling her title correctly.
Since they were dealing with play money, the other day Hilarious and Sheila Baby made a grand motion for their colleagues. They proposed authorizing the Bored to spend up to $95,000 to take a fourth swing at the question until they get the answers they want on elevating the minimum wage to who knows how much.
The Bored kids voted 5-0 approval, reached down, picked up their paltry lunch buckets, stood, hitched their Dollar Store overalls, retied their clodhoppers and walked outside where their perfumed limos awaited.