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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Wed May 22, 2013, 10:51 PM May 2013

Hello Los Angeles. What's the story w. Eric Garcetti?

Another anti-union, anti teacher, "market reformer"? His bio doesn't exactly bode well:


>>>Garcetti was born in Los Angeles. His father, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, is an American of Spanish, Italian, and Indigenous descent, and his mother, Sukey Roth, is of Russian Jewish descent.[4][5][6][7][8] Garcetti attended elementary school at UCLA Lab School (formerly Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School), and middle school and high school at Harvard-Westlake School. He majored in political science and urban planning and received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1992 as a John Jay Scholar.[9] At Columbia, he served on the Student Council, was President of the St. Anthony Hall literary society, founded the Columbia Urban Experience, and co-wrote and performed in three years of the Varsity Show, a student-written musical, whose past co-writers include Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Lorenz Hart. Garcetti also received a Masters of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, graduating in 1993.[10] He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford[11] and also studied at the London School of Economics.>>>wiki

Any light at the end of this tunnel?

Or is he just another political-class preppie?

Say it ain't so.


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Hello Los Angeles. What's the story w. Eric Garcetti? (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus May 2013 OP
He's a "practicing progressive." jaysunb May 2013 #1
Don't play with me now. Smarmie Doofus May 2013 #3
What is the "progressive wing" LWolf May 2013 #5
I voted for Garcetti, as did a fire breathing, socialist-at-heart friend of mine. kestrel91316 May 2013 #2
Did movie director and education savant Davis ( Crazy Guggenheim) Guggenheim have an opinion? Smarmie Doofus May 2013 #4
 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
3. Don't play with me now.
Thu May 23, 2013, 06:25 AM
May 2013

There's nothing lower than to give someone false hope.

Hmmm... maybe this is why there hasn't been a lot of MSM coverage?

None, actually; that I've seen anyway.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
5. What is the "progressive wing"
Thu May 23, 2013, 08:32 AM
May 2013

of the Democratic Party?

"Progressive" as in DLC and their "Progressive Policy Institute?"

Or "progressive" as in "somewhere to the left of the rest of the right-wing nation?"

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
2. I voted for Garcetti, as did a fire breathing, socialist-at-heart friend of mine.
Thu May 23, 2013, 01:07 AM
May 2013

He sounds a lot more progressive than anybody we've had in years.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
4. Did movie director and education savant Davis ( Crazy Guggenheim) Guggenheim have an opinion?
Thu May 23, 2013, 06:32 AM
May 2013

He always does. Or so it seems.

Gee... so where's all the foundation $$$ and hedge-fund cash going to go out there?


San Diego, I guess.

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