As the official photographic chronicler of the fund raiser, she did not appear in any of the photos she took, yet managed to isolate and identify all of the important people behind the scenes, an important gift she’ll never realize she game me.
The irony, of course, is that other people took pictures of her taking pictures, exposing her as a behind the scenes player as well – a role I suspect she might actually like.
It is impossible from the photographs to tell if these movers and shakers actually take her seriously or dismiss her as glorified secretary, someone the Virgin Mayor hired out of pity.
Her poetry suggests she has little or no power, and equally little respect. Ironically, she had more power while outside the administration while working for us than she has now.
How long she will tolerate her unimportant role remains to be seen. She is not someone who likes being made to feel small. Even when she plays the role of needing to be mentored, she has her eye on the prize.
A lot has to do with the Virgin Mayor’s legal fate. The Freeholder believes we will likely know by June. But the Virgin Mayor’s legal team is doing its best to stall, possibly with the ultimate motive of keeping their hands in the till as long as possible, getting their contracts with the city before the golden goose gets cooked.
A lot of the case depends on tapes the feds are using, which the freeholder has heard, but will not reveal the content to me.
The mayor’s Chief Rival claims it won’t matter if the Virgin Mayor is convicted or not. The rival is planning a recall election for the fall. But others claim a recall is just a pipe dream.
Her connection to the Virgin Mayor is through RR, other wise she would not have lied for him in September when she told me RR had broken away from the Virgin Mayor and had plans to run for mayor himself, with RR the only “clean candidate” in the election.
RR, however, recently told D her replacement in our office, that he never intended to run for mayor. I suspect this is true and that he simply brokered a deal with the Virgin Mayor to get a government job.
She included a picture of RR in her collection from the fundraiser.
It is difficult to tell if they are still romantically involved with each other. She may have switched her allegiance to the mayor himself or Joey D – the real mastermind in city hall.
Of course, her poetry and Facebook remarks seem to contradict some of her political maneuvers, such as all that stuff about giving up on love and learning to live alone with her cats and Netflix.
And just who was she addressing on her Facebook account when calling him a liar and for him to shut up?
I’m trying to imagine the situation behind the scenes, the falling in and the falling out, the personal mingling with the political, and her need to trickle up to a place where she is immune and still has clout.
As said before, it’s like trying to figure out how a watch works without opening the watch to see its mechanisms. I dare not get close to any of these or risk getting sucked up into the vortex again.
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