Best guess looking at it from the outside is that RR wants a piece of the Virgin Mayor’s money. But then, the whole crew around the mayor seems bent on getting their fair share, from Joey D and his developer brother to the crew that came in from the former Newark mayor’s campaign, one looking to cash in on the town’s insurance, while others eye other slices of the political pie.
RR seems like a free agent (or as the Small Man told me), operating for his own motives, not always in league with the rat pack led by Joey D. So, it is possible the others didn’t know about the scheme to use our office and may not have known about her role in it.
Yet, from what the Chief Adversary and his campaign crew told me about her wanting to create a paper she could write in their behalf, I suspect more than RR was involved, even when it came to what she wrote for us.
The deception is just too similar.
How far back all of this goes, I can’t say. Most likely from when the Virgin Mayor pulled off his upset victory last year, at which point RR and she started to get close to him. But like moths to a flame, they could not have predicted his odd behavior, his pissing off a U.S. Senator and alienating some of those people who helped get him elected. They certainly could not have predicted his legal troubles.
While Joey D and his rat back were stuck with the mayor, she and RR may well have looked for other options and that the scheme to bring down the congressman was RR’s personal revenge.
Her being forced to resign from our office may well have been another blow, and the whole crew began to alter their plans.
I’m told she’s been in on the political discussions and has been asked to use her contacts to find dirt on the Freeholder who filed the charges against the Virgin Mayor in the first place.
Her relationship with RR is also confusing. She might call him a boyfriend, but he seems more like protection, a strong man she can rely on if and when the going gets tough. Again, she is swimming with sharks these days, and needs someone she can rely on to have her back.
But getting too close to the Virgin Mayor is risky, and not just because she claims he’s come on to her several times. If he goes down, or is forced to resign, she has no position of power and will have to trickle up with a new power figure.
She is starved for personal power, and it will only frustrate her more if she has to start all over again from the bottom. She needs to somehow use this as a stepping stone to something else.
By taking the job so close to the Virgin Mayor, she has exposed herself to his enemies as well as to the marginal political figures who are with the Virgin Mayor only to a certain point and then will abandon him. If he goes down and she’s still attached to him, she’ll go down with him.
I suspect she’s already made contingency plans, eyeing someone other than the Virgin Mayor or RR as a life boat when the Titanic sinks.
Even RR’s wavering attachment to the Virgin Mayor is a sign of desperation, especially now that his schemes against the congressman are exposed. He claims he may run for mayor against the Virgin Mayor and the Chief Adversary and claims he can win.
My source close to the charges against the mayor claims that the Virgin Mayor is already negotiating with the Feds to plea to a lesser charge to avoid jail for himself and his son, which will allow him to keep Medicare and Medicaid in his private business which he would lose if he were convicted of the charges he faces now. But such a deal would require him to resign as mayor, leaving the whole rat pack including RR and her high and dry.
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