Calif. Dems Channel Hugo Chavez in Targeting Tiger Woods’ “Bourgeois” Sport — for “Housing”

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps they’d feel differently about the game if, like fellow socialist Kim Jong-Il, they’d once carded a 34 (ahem) on a regulation-length golf course, which beats Tiger Woods’ lowest-ever score by 27 shots (ahem!). Instead, California Democrats are channeling late socialist Hugo Chavez, who would spitefully destroy golf courses in Venezuela, calling the game an “obnoxious bourgeois sport” whose privileged participants “should all be exterminated.”

Yes, some Golden State Democrats are leading an effort to plow municipal golf courses under, using the same pretext Chavez did: to make way for affordable housing. Except that their proposal is in one sense even worse than ol’ Hugo’s.

As in Third World countries generally, golf in Venezuela truly is a game for the champagne set. But the California bill targets public golf courses, which were created for the very purpose of giving the common man access to recreation that had previously been reserved for the rich.

What’s more, what underlies this issue goes far beyond golf.

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Comments

[TJ]

I get the sense you started life as a liberal, Selwyn. As they say, a leopard can't change his spots.