Darcy Kuenzi is a founder and councilwoman of the Riverside County city of Menifee. Before participating in a panel on whether splitting the state might solve California’s problems, she revealed in the green room that she’d love to be a lion-the king of the jungle.
Q. What’s your favorite piece of art?
A. “Mona Lisa”-I like paintings.
Q. What’s your most recent online purchase?
A. A political purchase, and I just got the invoice: a phone banking database.
Q. What’s the last dessert you loved?
A. I love chocolate, I love desserts, and the last one I had was probably-oh, it was a chocolate-filled cannoli at the Edward-Dean Museum Gala.
Q. Are you on Twitter?
A. I am, but I don’t tweet! I don’t know how Tweet! I do Facebook. I’m afraid that Twitter will distract me. All I’ll be doing is tweeting, and I won’t be paying attention to what you’re talking about.
Q. What embarrasses you?
A. Stupidity. People who say dumb things for no good reason. Sometimes I say dumb things for no good reason.
Q. What profession would you like to practice in your next life?
A. I want to be a singer.
Q. What are you reading right now?
A. California Crackup by [moderator] Joe Mathews and [panelist] Mark Paul.
Q. Where would you like to travel next?
A. Tahiti-it’s on my bucket list.
Q. If you could be any animal, what would you be?
A. I’d like to be a lion-king of the jungle.
Q. What do you do to clear your mind?
A. Meditate and pray.
Q. Who last left you a voicemail?
A. The president of the Menifee action group, Bob Duistermars.
*Photo by Sarah Rivera.