Dear Big Daddy,
A Republican Assembly member, Joel Anderson, appropriated one of your signature phrases by saying “money is the mother’s milk of terrorism.” Does this mean terrorism and politics have the same mother? And who’s the father?
–Word
Dear Big Daddy,
I’ve been a lobbyist for years, but I’ve never been treated as rudely as I was by a member recently. I was waiting to speak to her when she ducked out a side door, went downstairs and
Dear Big Daddy,
Somebody spring Joe Francis from jail, ’cause the legislators are going wild! Which was the better legislative throw-down: Fabian N
Dear Big Daddy,
Did you come back as one of those whales trying to swim to the capital? Is that why John Garamendi wanted so badly to speak with the them?
–Ouueeeiii hooopeeeiiiaaa yooouuuiiieeeuuu
Dear Vowel Movement,
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Hey Big Daddy,
The year started out with big talk of prison reform. But the debate detoured into the governor’s “death chamber” and pardons for Paris Hilton. Can’t we stay on topic?
–DCA has ADD
Dear hypocrite looking for
California State Senator Tom Harman campaigned for his office last year as the “conservative” candidate, rolling out the endorsements of a bogus taxpayer-rights group and a liberal Republican organization. He and his surrogates insisted his diaper tax-proposing ways were a
Think of this as a postcard from the other Los Angeles.Not the weather-is-great-wish-you-were-here variety, but the let-me-out-of-here-I-deserve-better kind.
It’s from the crowded immigrant neighborhoods south and east of the Civic Center. And its authors are junior-high-school students taking part in
Dear Big Daddy,
As an environmentalist, I’m sick of Schwarzenegger pretending he’s the second coming of Rachel Carson. Now people are saying he’s a better environmental advocate than Al Gore. Please.
–Living green, seeing red
Dear Lawn Gnome,
Dear Big Daddy,Did you see that Mervyn Dymally made a witness cry while chairing the Assembly Health Committee the other week? You were the most infamous committee chairman ever. Was Dymally maintaining order, or just being mean? –Weeping witness watcher
Dear Big Daddy,
Those of us who work for elected officials often have to go above and beyond. But a friend of mine was recently called upon to brief their member while the member was, how to put this delicately,