Our Political Elites
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One of the many ridiculous things about The West Wing, and really there are so many, was how it propagated this idea that the political class is ultimately filled with serious people wanting to make serious change. Uh huh. Much more accurate was Veep, which shows our political class to be filled with the most vapid, selfish, awful people imaginable. As it turns out, our political class may in fact be too ridiculous to parody.
For months, Ana Guerrero, the chief of staff for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and other city employees had a running joke.
Whenever Guerrero or another member of a private Facebook group they named “Solid Gold” wanted to poke fun at a politician or activist, they would post a picture taken from their social media accounts, the Los Angeles Times reported. Then, mockery and offensive comments would ensue.
Among those Guerrero and other group members derided was labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta.
“I hate her. You hate her,” Guerrero wrote under a photo of Huerta, who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association with Cesar Chavez, in which she also called her in Spanish a “jealous old lady!”
Now those posts have left Guerrero, 50, temporarily out of her job.
On Tuesday, Garcetti announced he was suspending his top aide “so she can make things right with the people addressed in these comments,” the Times reported. Alex Comisar, the mayor’s spokesman, told the newspaper that Guerrero will be on “administrative leave for the foreseeable future, unpaid for a month.”
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In the private Facebook group exposed by the Times, which operated from 2016 to 2017, Guerrero and others also mocked stateSen. María Elena Durazo (D), former California Assembly speaker John Pérez (D) and Los Angeles City Councilman Gil Cedillo (D).
In 2017, a member of the group reposted a campaign post from Durazo, who was then running for state Senate. Durazo’s campaign post read, “I am not asking you to send me to Sacramento. I am asking you to come with me to the state Capitol,” the Times reported.
Guerrero allegedly replied “¡Guácala!” alongside an angryemoji. (The word translates to “gross.”)
On another occasion, the Times reported, someone in the Solid Gold group posted a photo of cupcakes with Cedillo’s face on them, adding “Who wants a cupcake!?” Guerrero answered with a vomiting emoji.
On Tuesday, Garcetti — who said he was not a member of the private group and did not become aware of the posts until recently — defended Guerrero’s past work and said he expects his top aide to return.
I have no idea–maybe Dolores Huerta is a huge pain. But that real life professionals would think they could get away forever with this kind of thing that is all written down and everything demonstrates a lot of arrogance. Hardly surprising. The bigger thing is the sheer pettiness. These people are just…awful. If there’s one thing that unites our political class across the aisle, it is personal grossness.