Opinion: Is Steve Garvey, or his California campaign, for real?
LA TimesFormer baseball player Steve Garvey speaks during a televised debate for candidates in the Senate race to succeed the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Monday. Even all these years later, what a tidy little description of the man who stood on stage at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on Monday evening, uttering platitudes and nonsense during a very serious debate among candidates for the California U.S. Senate seat that, until her death, was held by Dianne Feinstein. They said, ‘You’re the first time anybody’s come up and asked us about our life.’ ” Lee, who is African American and once became homeless with her kids after escaping an abusive marriage, practically sputtered: “I cannot believe how he described his walk and touching and being there with the homeless,” she said as the audience chuckled heartily at Garvey’s nerve. “I’ve taken strong positions.” Please help me understand how the man is different from an artificial intelligence bot programmed to utter the most anodyne phrases he thinks voters want to hear: “I’m common sense.
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