Posted on 09/20/2004 12:43:06 PM PDT by Area Freeper
You can add another name to the long list of Kennedys running for public office.
Bobby Shriver, the son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and the brother of Maria Shriver has thrown his hat in the ring.
Shriver is running for a City Council seat in Santa Monica, California. He said he has no political aspirations beyond that office.
The average IQ of the Kennedy family is approaching 50...
Lord have mercy and save us from this plague of Kennedy's. What ever did we do to deserve this vile family?
Is this the one that left a girl to drown in his car? Or is this one who was forced to undergo a lobotomy by her father? Or is this one who raped a girl after going out cruising with his senator uncle? Or is this the one who had a sexual relationship with his kid's 14-year-old babysitter? Or is this the one who was shooting heroin into his testicles before dropping dead? Or is this the one who assaulted a girl on the rented yacht he trashed? Or is this the one who assaulted a female airport security guard? Or is this the one who’s been repeatedly busted for DWI? Or is this the one…
Well, whichever one it is, we should all vote for him, because his family is American royalty.
Or was it the two who were sharing the same movie-star girlfriend before seperately getting shot?
All the stops were pulled out: in fact, there was so much "syrup" and Kennedy-worship in the story,it was all I could do to make it to the barf-bowl in time.
If he has an overbite, he has political ambitions beyond the city council.
What's one more corrupt Kennedy into the politics given that he's Maria's brudder.
Another Kennedy? Is this one a rapist or a murderer?
AT THIS TIME.
Santa Monica is the Sudetenland of Kennedy family politics these days.
Who said they had to pick one or the other?
The temperature of an already fevered local election was kicked up a notch on Monday, when Bobby Shriver joined the race for City Council. The candidate was in Boston, but his attorney, Colleen McAndrews, delivered the papers on his behalf just 40 minutes before the filing deadline.
Shriver, 50, is the eldest of five children born to Sargent Shriver – architect of the Peace Corps (and its first director), former ambassador to France, and George McGovern's running mate in the 1972 presidential race – and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of John F. Kennedy and founder of Special Olympics. His sister Maria is married to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Though he has devoted much of his life to public service and currently heads the State Parks Commission, this will be Shriver's first bid for elective office. The Yale Law School graduate has worked as an attorney and a reporter, and is a former part owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
A 17-year Santa Monica resident, Shriver is best known locally for leading the fight against hedge height regulations, nationally for producing a series of Christmas albums that raised $60 million for Special Olympics, and internationally for his work with DATA, an organization he co-founded to alleviate AIDS and poverty in Africa.
In his candidate's statement, Shriver says, "My life's main focus has been starting and managing projects to help people. As a council member, I will focus on traffic congestion, opportunities for youth, and a regional solution to Santa Monica's transient population.
"I will insist that all Santa Monicans be treated with respect. No renter will be harassed out of his or her home. No resident will be subjected to arbitrary fines."
Shriver anticipates no problems in working with a council dominated by Santa Monicans for Renters Rights. "I get along fine with the SMRR crowd," he says. "They stand for a lot of the things I've worked for."
Though the hedge dispute drew him into Santa Monica's public process, he is not a single issue candidate. "The issue was never the hedges themselves," he says. "The issue was how you are treated."
Shriver recalls an Ocean Park woman who was reduced to tears during testimony in the council chambers. "I don't like the way people are bullied by the system," he says. "I've spent my life working for disabled kids who get bullied, poor people in Africa who get bullied. The use of criminal process against residents is a bullying tactic. People shouldn't be terrified of their local government."
Just another socialist in Santa Monica. They deserve him.
Nice little place long ago.
Permit me to translate: he's never held what we mere mortals call "a real job" because he never had to do so, thanks to his sleazy grandpa Joe's fortune. Hedge heights?
In his candidate's statement, Shriver says, "My life's main focus has been starting and managing projects to help people. As a council member, I will focus on traffic congestion, opportunities for youth, and a regional solution to Santa Monica's transient population. I will insist that all Santa Monicans be treated with respect. [Can you legislate that?] No renter will be harassed out of his or her home. No resident will be subjected to arbitrary fines.
Aim high.
Hedge heights. Yeah, I saw that too. Such a burning issue, apparently, in Santa Monica .........
I like the Shrivers. They understand public service and what it means. I have worked with them on the Special Olympics and it's a great program.
The Shriver's aren't layabouts and crooks like the other Kennedy's. They are actually good people. I may not agree with all their thinking, but I see how they have really done some amazing things to help others and I applaud them for that.
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