Anti-Los Angeles sentiment has been building in California for the past several years as the city has grown steadily more annoying. But few political insiders predicted that the state’s voters would go so far as to vote it off the map.
Providing fuel for the recall movement, however, was a report in last Thursday’s Los Angeles Times that the city of Los Angeles, while comprising far less than half of the state’s population, currently consumes more than 80 percent of the state’s supply of botox. “A lot of voters saw that number and said, ‘Throw the bums out’,” says Bud Cregan, one of the recall movement’s backers.
While logistics of the recall remain sketchy, backers of the initiative said today that if the recall is successful, Los Angeles could be “sawed off” from the rest of the state and sent floating out into the ocean.
Speculation is running rampant as to what might eventually replace Los Angeles in such a scenario, but pundit Arianna Huffington announced today that she stands “ready, willing and able” to serve as the state’s largest city.
Reactions to Ms. Huffington’s bid to become the state’s newest metropolis were mixed, perhaps best typified by a comment by Los Angeles video store clerk Stacy Leland, 31: “Arianna Huffington’s okay, I guess, but I wouldn’t want to live in her.”
