Obtuse Quote Of The Day

I think the prize for most ridiculous quote from yesterday's post-election news stories goes to this one from Sherri Sherry Bebitch Jeffe from yesterday's OC Register print story on the Bates-DeYoung race:

Other political watchers wondered if the two women were spending such record amounts to generate name recognition for later races. In addition to her own $3.3 million, DeYoung raised $234,550.

"This is an investment in the future," said Sherry(sic) Bebitch Jeffe, a USC political science professor.

Yes, I'm sure that's what Cassie DeYoung was thinking when she opened her supervisor campaign account in December 2003 with a personal contribution of $300,000, and dumped nearly three million dollars more into her campaign during the next 35 months: "Win or lose, this is an investment in my future."

I'm thinking that her thinking was more along the lines of: "I want to be supervisor, and I'm going to spend whatever it takes!" and the dynamic of ever escalating expenditures took off from there.

Granted, Bebitch Jeffe isn't from Orange County and I seriously doubt she closely followed 5th Supervisor District or understood the players or the dynamics of the raced. But come one -- spending millions in a supervisor race in order to build name ID for a future race? Why not just spend those millions on that future race (whatever it might be)?

Comments

[Peggy Lowe]

Matt -- I spelled Sherry's name correctly. So sic on the sic, dude.

http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/profiles/bebitch_jeffe.html

Peggy

[Jubal]

Doh! I stand corrected, Peggy.

[Dwight Robinson]

Maybe the "future investment" is for another bid for councilwoman. 3 million might be enough to win that.

[Mark Leyes]

Sherry Bebitch Jeffe has never added anything useful to political discourse in any of overhyped (and overpaid?) commentary. She does nothing but spout platitudes, state the obvious and regurgitate whatever the conventional wisdom may be. Whenever she ventures into anything remotely speculative, she will reliably utter some inanity such as her profoundly ridiculous comments on DeYoung's "future."

I turned the channel when she began to appear on Channel 4 news. I think we should all boycott the channel unless and until they employ someone with a lack of bias and, frankly, something interesting to say.

Mark, for once, is exactly right. Sherry is pure media hound, offering only that which is certain to be comprehended and quoted by our less than discriminating local media. Such idiocies are to be expected.