Moving on up June 8, 2013

 

  

More than likely, RR came up with the original concept of using her to control our editorial output – though others have since sought the same, most recently, the R campaign which seems to think we have more influence than we do.

“RR is an evil man who will do just about anything to anybody,” said one of his stanches critics.

RR is a man who will entrap someone and then blackmail them into get at someone else, this same critic said.

Since it is clear she was under RR’s influence almost as soon as she began working for us in late 2011, you have to wonder did he have something on her that he used to force her to do his bidding?

Or was she so infatuated with him that she remained blind to just what a confidence man he was?

She did at least three puff pieces on him and how he planned to get his position back on the police department. He also severed as her primary source for the Virgin Mayor’s legal troubles, he getting win of his indictment from the FBI, a national police force that tends to protect former cooperative witnesses regardless of how much a scumbag they might be.

RR clearly was behind the plot to use her to bring down the congressman, and perhaps some other of RR’s political enemies, such as the head of the housing authority, and using the son of the Small Man’s right hand man, while still employed by us, not to mention her attacks against the Neighboring Mayor (although this might have been driven by our boss once she came back from maternity leave, who was intimately connected to a private eye working for the power state Senator.

In the year and half since she joined out office, I’m still unable to determine if her actions on RR’s behalf were part of a long-planned scheme, or the result of RR someone blackmailing her into doing his bidding?

Or did she gradually become an advocate for him as he fed her stories that made her look good with our owners?

She certainly had ingested his Kool Aide when I confronted her about him late last August, a regular cheerleader for his cause.

But knowing how much a smooth talker he is, she may just have been gullible enough to fall for it, and actually believed what he told her – the secret missions, his work for the FBI and such.

She may not have been his plant in our office from the start, but rather simply someone he could manipulate.

And yet…

I can’t help but think of that same day in March 2012 when he contacted me during the day offering to fill me on details that will help me with stories I was writing, while that night she contacted me to tell me how much she was into me.

In retrospect, it seems orchestrated and certainly more than a coincidence – while it may have been just that.

As for black mail? It is difficult for me to wrap my head around the concept of her as a victim or that she is so naïve as to allow RR – regardless of how smooth a talker he is – to get over on her.

She’s been around the block too many times for her to fall so easily for anybody’s bullshit, and I keep thinking about that old lady on the cruise who helped her change her priorities all those long years ago.

And on the other hand, black mail or some other threat, might well explain her extreme reaction each time I upset her plans, as if there was something else riding on her relationship with me, with our former Temporary Boss and ultimately, our male owner.

Her panic seemed to be about something more than just my leaving her at a bar one night in May, or my posting of her roof top photo, or even my talking to our former Temporary boss about her.

There were times I suspected she was being controlled, threatened or intimidated by dark forces, and that she was forced to do and say certain things that complied with those pulling her strings.

That’s why at times, I read things into her poems that might not have actually meant anything, especially the compassion poem over the summer, the quick sand poem, and a few lines thrown into other poems such calling me “clever and illusive.” I hoped she was sending secret messages through that medium those threatening her were not clever enough to interpret.

But again, this is pure speculation without anything to substantiate it. Ultimately, everything may have been exactly as it panned out, and she teetered on the edge of a nervous breakdown each time I did something stupid or unpredictable, such as talking to our Temporary Boss about her, or sending her birthday wishes via text.

She clearly has been doing other people’s bidding since she left our employ – such as spying on the Virgin Mayor’s chief rival, offering him her services a s writer when she was actually stealing his deepest secrets to bring back to RR, and the Virgin Mayor’s inner circle.

Her feeding her replacement “D” the story about the housing authority director seemed to fit this pattern, since the housing authority director wasn’t providing apartments for the Virgin Mayor’s needy supporters.

The inner circle apparently also hoped she had the right contacts to help them dig up dirt on other political enemies, explaining the rash of phone calls she made around the county.

If it is a plot, however, the inner circle mistook her worth and presumed she was more politically connected than she actually is. They clearly didn’t realize she did more feature stories than political stories.

Once they hired her, they were stuck with her and needed to make use of her talents – whatever they are.

Her employment for the Virgin Mayor may well also be a disappointment to her as well, since she managed to trickle up only to find what she wanted wasn’t there.

Unlike some of her other jobs in the past where she could trickle up with the boss, and acquire the title of a manager, the mayor’s world isn’t providing her with such an opportunity, and she may well find herself staring at four walls, looking for so way to actually acquire power, and finding such power is in the hands of other people, not hers.

When she still worked with us, she kept telling the office gossips that her position was only a stepping stone to something else – perhaps inspired by promises made by RR and others in the inner circle.

I suspect she feels desperate to prove herself and earn her place in the elite, and why this sudden quote in the paper with her as an official spokesperson is so important.

She might be able to use it as a ticket to some other gig, allowing her to hobnob not just with our writer, but all the media, valuable contacts she might use later to move up in the world.

Perhaps she is doing an audition for an even more important role in the Hometown election, where she might well be able to prove her meddle.

All this, of course, may simply be a figment of my imagination.

 

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