“You can’t make this stuff up.”
And Durst pointed out, rightly so, that he would be viewed as more liberal in Wisconsin but more conservative in San Francisco. “You can’t make this stuff up,” he likes to say.
We all laughed out loud, in cool cabaret-style seating under a floodlight.
It got me thinking about Grass Valley’s “old guard” politics. Grass Valley likes to “go its own way,” as I’ve written before.
But that could change in the upcoming November elections. Three of the five City Council seats are up for grabs.
We’ve recently seen a shift toward the middle politically in some of our local “elected” posts — from the county supervisors to the judges to the supposedly “nonpartisan” positions.
It better reflects the diversity of our community — not just favoring one segment.
The Union newspaper publisher, who carried water for the tea party, global warming deniers and others with more extreme, minority political views — sometimes at the expense of the rest of the community — is gone. (“George Rebane, Greg Goodknight and Stan Meckler were there. Nancy Garcia and her hubby came to say goodby too,” as Todd Juvinall wrote on his blog). How sweet.
The City Council elections in Grass Valley come amid noticeable political change elsewhere in our community. It will be interesting to see if the city’s politics also begin to reflect that.
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The teas may be subduded for now but their still sitting in McDonalds berating women and announcing that amo will be the next currency. The John Burchers live to fight another day in another form.
Wanda, I guess you are serious. I very rarely get over to the Basin, but do tea people really hang-out there on a regular–as in tactical–basis to promote their ideology and when they’re bored, for whatever reason, hurl such insults. And are the insults thrown randomly or selectively, for example, at people with bumper stickers for Obama? Are they clad in red T-shirts?
My wife and I sat next to a large and spirited party at a local restaurant for breakfast one day a couple of years ago.
We overheard one of the patrons at that table ask the waiter, “Do you have a ‘Tea Party Special’?”
To which the waiter replied, “Oh you mean the one where — no matter what we serve you — you don’t like it?”
Priceless.
I’ll pass it on to Will Durst.
The waiter was a quick wit or, by rote, knew exactly what to say. Either way, he nailed the tea people’s platform with a single hammer blow.