The public safety director in her town is leaving. This may be both good news and bad news for her, since he’s the man to whom she gave information about her stalker from Brooklyn and possibly others, and someone who frequently commented on her Facebook postings. His leaving leaves her with one less supporter in an ever-changing political landscape.
The good news – if she is still connected to RR – is that RR is rumored to possibly get the post.
My sources claim the public safety director could no longer handle the pressure. He’s a nervous kind of man, who apparently struggles when it comes to making decisions.
One of the freeholders, who is very close to him, claims the public safety director is a nervous wreck, but can’t explain why.
“He’s in with sharks,” the freeholder said. “He’s got balls, but he’s not educated.”
Others call him “nice” but not smart.
“He’s gotten in over his head,” the freeholder said. “He told me he couldn’t take it anymore.”
The mayor and those close to him have asked the public safety director to selectively enforce the law.
“He has too many ethics to do that,” the freeholder said. “He can’t take what they are asking him to do.”
Married with three kids, the public safety director was appointed just about the same time she started to work for our office, part of a duel arrangement that had him sharing power with one of the police captains.
“I told him that having two people sharing power is crazy,” the freeholder said. “He asked me to serve as his deputy director. I wanted no part of that. I knew it couldn’t last.”
And as it turned out, it didn’t. Eventually, he became sole public safety director, and her close friend, even though she then still worked in our office.
In some ways, he was perfect for her, someone in authority to whom she could turn for support whenever she felt threatened – and apparently gave him significant amounts of her correspondence with her so-called stalkers, for him to keep and later use if necessary.
With his leaving, she loses a valuable resource, someone even RR can’t replace -- a good man with ethics, who has shielded her and perhaps some of her activities. (It’s hard to tell what else she used him for although the timing of his leaving also comes at a time when her lover is distancing himself for her, begging me to wonder if he was that lover – although I suspect not.)
He is not a rat jumping ship, but a good man fleeing a ship full of rats.
Although she remains and appears to be developing real skills at self-preservation, he would never see her as a rat, and neither do I.
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