Tim, the former Hometown writer from a few years ago, is
recruiting current and former writers from our company, to help work on R’s
campaign, in an all too similar way our poet friend tried to use our company to
help RR’s attempt to bring down the congressman and his allies.
This continues to raise questions as to whether she is
connected to R’s campaign now or was acting as a provocateur during her
employment with us – a secret agent who was simply following marching orders.
GA, the hometown blogger, says she has proof that Tim is
working for the R campaign, of which I have no doubt since when he worked for
us, his stories tended to be pro old Hometown as opposed to the progressives,
and since leaving our employ, he has served as PR and other duties for some of
the most hard core democrats in the state, although he told me he’s not working
for R, but merely helping out.
All this stuff raises serious ethical questions about the
role we in media play, and how underhanded politics can operate in its attempt
to corrupt us.
The problem for our poet if she is working for R now, is
that she has already been compromised with too many players already aware of
how she’s operated behind the scenes to risk sending her out into the field to
work without a lot of alarms going off.
I suspect A – our poet’s bar-hopping buddy and our former
Hometown writer – will serve in that role, leaving the question of where our
poet fits in.
It’s hard to tell whether the Virgin Mayor and his crew of
cutthroats got any use of her when she called around the county looking to dig
up dirt on the Virgin Mayor’s enemies. She was never a political guru the way
Tim was and may have been – as Paul Simon might have put it – faking it.
But with Hometown up for grabs, it is a put up or shut up moment
for her. If she is operating as their agent, then she is going to have to prove
her worth, and to demonstrate whether or not she really is a political player.
Tim never mentioned her by name when he mentioned the list
of current and former employees who he’d approached, either a deliberate misdirection
or he simply didn’t see her as living up to the part.
Tim knows his stuff after having spent years hobnobbing with
political bigwigs, letting them give him drink and cocaine and most likely the
women that come along with such affiliations.
Unfortunately, Tim tends to self-destruct. As a writer, he
spent too much time socializing with these political heavyweights and showed up
at functions drunk or near drunk, yet someone is loved enough by the powers
that be as for them to keep giving him second chances – such as representing a
woman who is vying to become governor, right up to the point that he got busted
for pot possession during a DWI stop.
He eventually crawled back to this part of the world where
he apparently hopes to resurrect his career by helping R become mayor, compromising
our company’s integrity in the process.
This idea of manipulating our company by our poet and by
others to achieve political ends suggests a connection between her and them
which may not exist.
I think she would love to be considered an insider, and yet,
her intelligence and her personal sense of worth defies her simply being used.
Although, she did drink RR’s Kool Aid, and I’m wondering if
she even believed it back then or was simply jockeying for position, using RR –
as The Small Man suggested – as protection until she can trickle up to someone
better.
I don’t suppose I’ll ever really know if she served other
people while working for us, or simply did what she always does wherever she’s
worked in the past, a lone operative seeking new stepping stones to climb.
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