Her taking the job with the Virgin Mayor raises a lot of questions and a lot of eyebrows.
According to the Chief Adversary and his Chief of Staff, they met with her for several hours, laying out their strategy for their campaign against the Virgin Mayor.
“She said she wanted to write for us, and we believed her,” the Chief of Staff said.
This largely proved her right about how stupid they were after her writing stories for us that were designed to humility the Chief Adversary.
Didn’t they get the drift from that?
The Small Man believes her sole allegiance is to RR.
“Where RR goes, she goes,” the Small Man told me.
But I’m not sure of even that. RR seems like a marriage of convenience, a strong man who can help her take the next step. Some believe she may have even tried to get behind the Neighboring Mayor, and perhaps even the Private Eye, forced to settle for RR.
Her fraudulent attempt to work for Chief Adversary is thick with political intrigue and may well have been part of a larger plan to undermine him from within. But she may have panicked at the idea of working as a double agent. She doesn’t have the nerves to be Mata Hari. I can’t imagine her keeping up the front of pretending to be on the Chief Adversary’s team, while sending all his secrets back to RR.
Maybe RR thought what she brought back was enough and sold this information to the Joey D and his gang of cut throats.
I’m told they expect her to call around up there and find more dirt they can use in the upcoming campaign.
Her taking the job with the Virgin Mayor may be as reward for her bit of spying although the Virgin Mayor said he gave her the job out of pity.
Regardless of how she got the job, taking it, as well as the betrayal of the Chief Adversary makes it impossible for her to ever return to our office – if indeed that was ever her plan. She would have no credibility if she tries.
But no doubt she is keeping close tabs on the owner and has been “instructing” her replacement, D--, so that he feels he can trust her. Perhaps Joey D and the gang feel she can still manipulate the coverage from outside. She has become a close bar-hopping buddy with our Hometown writer, A--.
But that kind of intrigue is never-racking as well. I’m not sure she has the stomach for it.
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