California Dem earning $207K taxpayer salary to face punishment after unleashing bizarre ‘small penis’ attack on journalist

A guy pulling down $207,000 a year of public money decided the best use of his time was to fire off a "small penis" insult at a reporter. Not a policy dispute, not a pointed rebuttal, just playground stuff from a man whose salary is paid by the same taxpayers he's supposed to be serving with some measure of professionalism. If this were a guy working the DMV counter who mouthed off like that, he'd be gone by Friday. Terry Schanz is "expected to face consequences," which in Sacramento-speak usually means a stern email and maybe a week of bad headlines.

What's telling is how small the actual offense was and how loudly it landed anyway. It's not that one crude tweet ends anyone's career. It's that it's a window into how comfortable people get once they're embedded in the machinery of a one-party state. When there's no real electoral check, no serious opposition breathing down your neck, this is what shows up: contempt for the press, contempt for basic decorum, the assumption that nothing sticks because nothing ever really does.

Journalists get insulted by all sorts of people, and thin skin isn't a governing philosophy. But there's a difference between a heated exchange and a taxpayer-funded official reaching for a schoolyard insult because a question annoyed him. That's not toughness, it's a tell. The people writing his paycheck deserve better than a spokesman who can't hold it together when someone asks an uncomfortable question.

If California Democrats want to talk seriously about "consequences," they might start by asking why a guy this thin-skinned had that job in the first place.