"HOW DARE YOU!" screamed snarling media darling Greta Thunberg. In a speech to the United Nations climate hacks, she was demanding that her cohorts of the always offended be compensated for amorphous damages that no one can really define. Someone is always demanding compensation from someone who had no part in "hurting" them. It's the times we live in.
In June of 2024, I wrote about how California’s super-majority Democrats want reparations for the moral failings of generations long since dead:
Another reparations bill has now moved through the California State Assembly. Because Democrats hold a supermajority, there is nothing to stop whatever absurdity Democrats invent. The latest reparations iteration would create an “agency” to help track black family lineage in preparation for reparations. Although California is swimming in red ink, it’s barreling toward reparations for Californians who were never slaves and who are several generations removed from a slave ancestor.
Senator Steven Bradford championed the agency idea. Although California wasn’t a slave state, Bradford thinks its citizens should pay for a sin they never committed.
“If you can inherit generational wealth, you can inherit generational debt,” Bradford said. “Reparations is a debt that’s owed to descendants of slavery.”
No one “inherits” the sins of their long-since-dead ancestors. I don’t owe anyone alive or dead for slaves my ancestors never owned.
There seems to be a pattern building in California – that being, people claiming damages for “hurt feelings.” Most of those claims are dismissed for sheer silliness, but here in my home county of Los Angeles, apparently, if you are part of the Democrat political machine, you will be rewarded handsomely if voters pass a measure that "hurts your feelings."
Last November, Measure G was passed by LA County voters. Measure G required voter approval for the position of County CEO. Apparently, being subject to voter approval was too much for the appointed LA County CEO, Fesia Davenport. The CEO is in charge of the county budget, but Davenport had other priorities as well. According to her BIO, her tasks and priorities included:
“...maintaining labor relations with the County’s 64 bargaining units, managing enterprise administrative operations of the County’s 38 departments, and ensuring the successful implementation of key priorities of the Board of Supervisors, including sustainability, poverty alleviation, addressing homelessness, and supporting anti-racism, diversity and inclusion.”
Appointed to her position in 2021, in the spring of 2025, Davenport wrote a letter to County Counsel. She wanted out, and she wanted a bag of cash.
“Measure G is an unprecedented event, and has had, and will continue to have, an unprecedented impact on my professional reputation, health, career, income, and retirement,” CEO Fesia Davenport wrote to county counsel Dawyn Harrison in a letter obtained by the Times. “My hope is that after setting aside the amount of my ask, that there can be a true focus on what the real issues are here - measure G has irrevocably changed my life, my professional career, economic outlook, and plans for the future.”
Apparently, Davenport was demanding her own "poverty alleviation." And, the county rolled. It just paid her $2,000,000. The details of the settlement required her and the county to keep the reasons for the settlement confidential, but her letter to County Counsel makes it pretty clear. Fesia's "feels” were hurt by the supervisors and the voters. And, I think, she wanted out before the house came crashing down around her.
A few months before Davenport demanded and got two million dollars of taxpayer money, she was reporting that LA County was in dire financial straits. Over 6,800 children were sexually abused in the county system, and the county agreed to a $4 billion settlement. Davenport reported that the county would need to issue bonds and borrow money to pay down the cost to the county.
"This is not a one-year, not even a one-decade impact. We anticipate that we will be paying hundreds of millions of dollars every year until 2030, and then millions more each year through fiscal year, 2050 - (20)51..."
While she was reporting that the county was cash poor, she was looking for her own payday. Voters hurt her feelings, and she wanted out.
This week, she headed for the door without an explanation to the staff, with a figurative bag of money in hand, and a “good luck” wave to the supervisors of an almost bankrupt county. Although Davenport seemed distressed by the near bankruptcy of the county, she wasn't so distressed to ask for, and receive two million dollars because Measure G “changed” her life, her "professional career, economic outlook, and plans for the future.”
I litigated some pretty silly and stupid cases, but never in my career did I see a more ridiculous claim for damages and settlement for millions.
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