She’s personal, not political.
So, this new arrangement is really all about strange bedfellows, that group of political opportunists that have aligned themselves with the virgin mayor, getting themselves well placed for later profits.
She’s never played that game before and may be a little out of her depth when it comes to those kinds of maneuvers. They may also read her wrong as well. She puts on a good act, and they may actually think she’s better connected than she really is.
No doubt, they want her to help them do their political dirty work and may be surprised to find she doesn’t know how.
This may not be true for the mayor who is nearly as naïve as she is, someone who fell into office because his opponent last year was so unpopular – not just with the people but with other powers, such as the congressman, the little man and the neighboring mayor.
Unfortunately, his ineptitude politically has alienated at least two of those three, possibly all of them.
But he has a big heart and likely felt sorry for her when he learned she lost her job with us and let someone – possibly RR or maybe even Joey D (the leader of that pack of thieves) talk him into hiring her. They are running the show and will likely expect her to deliver in return for the favor – typical expectations in this political world. What happens when she doesn’t?
Also, I doubt she has any real political loyalty, even though she pretends she has. Everything is personal with her. She is loyal to RR because of their personal relationship. This may also be true of the mayor. But with the rest of them, she may not, and her tendency is to do whatever it takes for her to survive.
She has a big learning curve if she expects to swim with sharks like them and needs to maintain the fiction that she is a shark, too, when she’s really a guppy.
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