CRADLE OF CHAOCRACY (via Glenn Dryfoos)

90049 is the recall's hip ZIP (MARY
McNAMARA, August 5, 2003, LA Times)

Last week, political gadfly Arianna Huffington gathered a few dozen friends and advisors in her Brentwood home to discuss the possibility of her entering the gubernatorial recall race. A few miles away, her former husband and failed senatorial candidate Michael Huffington was having similar conversations in his Brentwood home.

Meanwhile, political troops gathered at the Brentwood home of former Mayor Richard Riordan, after rumors built that former body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger would not run--a decision likely to be made after much consultation and discussion in his--all together now--Brentwood home.Thank heaven Bill Simon lives in the Palisades or you'd think something weird was going on here.

Why, it seems like only a matter of time before the curbsides of Sunset just west of the 405 are dotted with enterprising youth lounging beneath beach umbrellas and hawking Maps to the Homes of Those Contemplating Running for Governor in the Recall Race.

Which would have to include the childhood home of the man they're trying to unseat: Although he was born in New Jersey, Gray Davis was reared nowhere else but Brentwood.

When exactly did Brentwood become Hyannis Port west?

Run, OJ, run... Posted by Orrin Judd at August 7, 2003 8:31 AM