Mayor Freddy Puza told me he’d been interviewed nine times yesterday. “Just about everyone you can think of,” he laughed. “The LA Times, the New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS…” Our encounter was just random, we had not planned to speak but bumped into each other, and I had to ask. What makes the mayor such hot property on a Thursday afternoon?
I first saw the video of the finger-wagging Attorney General on Thursday morning, posted by Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove’s office, yesterday morning. I thought, oh sure, another botched bit of political theater from the feds. So what.
But by lunchtime, my younger daughter was howling with laughter over the memes, the reels, the whole clown car rolling around on social media. Some of them were really funny. Laughing out loud funny, hand over your mouth funny.
School Board member Triston Ezidore even threw down, sending out a press release, saying “Labeling Culver City ‘crime ridden’ might make for a viral moment in a congressional hearing, but it doesn’t reflect reality.”
Thinking about Bondi’s ‘burn book,’ the binder of site-specific insults that she had on hand, I wonder where that information could have come from. Is it 50 years out of date? Do they just make these things up out of thin air?
Looking at the video of the hearing, the mention of crime in Culver City is just one of the wild attempts at avoiding the questions about the Epstein files, and not even the strangest one – okay, one of the strangest ones.
That this person is the Attorney General of the United States….that’s not funny. That’s just criminal.
Judith Martin-Straw
