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I have known who this jackass is for a very long time, not the least due to his time on the LA City Clowncil. His back story is he was good in math and science in grade school and got into MIT, where he got a mechanical engineer degree(probably the easiest engineering degree) but inexplicably went into politics.

I don’t buy it. Not sure what chicanery is needed to make that story but basically no one with his background chooses politics at a young age and then acts like a buffoon once in politics. It just doesn’t occur.

Isn't his name Jose?

Lol!

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/shots-at-democrats-jd-vance-calls-alex-padilla-jose-padilla-after-press-clash-blames-gavin-newsom-for-la-unrest/articleshow/121985674.cms

Oh wow, it was actually a brilliant move to conflate the two Padillas:

Critics were quick to call out the remark, noting that “Jose Padilla” is the name of a man convicted of terrorism-related charges during the Bush administration. Governor Newsom responded on X, saying the name mix-up was “no accident.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(criminal)

José Padilla (born October 18, 1970), also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen who was convicted in a federal court of aiding terrorists.

Padilla was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, on suspicion of plotting a radiological bomb ("dirty bomb") attack. ...

During his gang years, he maintained several aliases, such as José Rivera, José Alicea, José Hernandez, and José Ortiz. As a 14-year-old juvenile, he was convicted of aggravated assault and manslaughter after a gang member, whom he had kicked in the head, died.

After serving his last jail sentence, Padilla converted to Islam after his marriage to a Muslim woman and moved to the Middle East.