At issue in this phase of the questioning are remarks made by Boyd to a conservative group called the Saturday Morning Breakfast Club. While publicly brown-nosing them and generally sucking up to their positions during his appearance, the following excerpt reveals what Boyd was really thinking.
Hanson is referring to a videotape of Boyd's speech. He was introduced by the club's host, Carl Tretschok, who gave him a glowing introduction as a guy who was cutting back on the size of county government. Here's what Boyd said about Tretschok and that introduction:
BOYD: Mr. Hanson, let me repeat myself. I think Mr. Tretschok is an odd character, someone who I often in the past have not paid very much attention to. And, I don't know. He's a hard guy for me to understand or communicate with."
Q: The People at the Breakfast Club gave you a gift at the end of that speech, right?
BOYD: I don't recall
Q: Do you remember receiving a book?
BOYD: Oh. Yes.
Q: Do you remember the title of the book?
BOYD: No I don't. But I remember it being an odd book.
Q: The title of the book was The Law, right?
BOYD: I think that's right. A little red thing, a little red book.
Q: Did you read it?
BOYD: I read like the first two pages and didn't read anymore.
Q: Why not?
BOYD: I think it was a real, real--it was like a book that struck me as kind of a Posse Comitatus, really odd constitutionalist book that looked like it was written by cranks.
Wrong, Mikey. That book was written by a French contemporary of de Tocqueville, Frederic Bastiat, in the 1840s when he was a member of the French parliament; it's been a conservative and libertarian classic for years, with millions of copies in multiple editions.
Which tells us how much time California jocks really spend in class while they're getting poli sci degrees--and what you really think of the people you spoke to.
Next week: What the Flaky Waffleman once thought of Ed Moore's legal ability.
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