Not your stepping stone June 11, 2013

 


 

You have to wonder if she has trickled all the way up to the Virgin Mayor, what’s left for her?

I mean, where does she go from here when there is nobody beyond the mayor.

For a time, I suspected she may have gotten involved with the Neighboring Mayor – a much more powerful mayor than the Virgin Mayor is, and a powerful state senator as well.

If so, then things went sour for her a while ago, which may explain the bad feelings between them, and why she called him corrupt and why she spread rumors about his allegedly getting an underage girl pregnant and hiding her in a housing authority apartment.

Trickly up is apparently tricky business. It is one thing to latch onto a relatively inexperienced politician like the Virgin Mayor, and quite another when it comes to a truly powerful person like the Neighboring Mayor.

And this is made worse by the fact that nobody yet knows whether the Virgin Mayor will be forced to resign if his legal case goes badly.

Our former temporary boss claims the Virgin Mayor is trying to get Civil Service status for her, so she can’t be fired by the new mayor.

But personal secretary to the mayor is hardly a position recognized by the state as deserving Civil Service protection.

And although she filed the paperwork, it is likely she knows she can’t get it, and is perhaps scared to death that she will sink when the Virgin Mayor’s ship sinks.

She most likely feels the way she did when she discovered that the bar owner she worked for in New York was incompetent and that that she is once again trapped in a position without an easy exit.

She might have to latch on to someone else – perhaps Joey D – hoping that person can help her find a new stepping stone.

This, of course, has to be done quietly. And from what I gather from her activity in our office, she tends to work her magic in secret, not allowing one person she’s used in her climb to know that she has found another horse to ride.

This somewhat explains her intense reaction when I told her I had talked about her to our former Temporary boss, when he was still temporary boss.

I knew then, she had already moved on to him – and was intensely jealous about it. For some reason, her trickling up to the male owner bothered me less, perhaps because I considered our former Temporary boss someone I could trust and suspected she had seduced him with the old cub reporter trick she had used on me.

This lack of ability to trickle up in her current situation is why I believe she will get involved in the Hometown election, looking for more fertile ground to sew her seeds, and a new pecking order that does not end up with a mayor facing federal charges.

New ground with a new pecking order would also allow her once more to operate in stealth. She would not have an easy transition if people knew her game the way several key people in her current town do and might recognize her attempt to claw her way to the top (as I recognized last year when she moved on from me to our Temporary Boss and finally to the male owner).

This is risky business, of course, since there will be others in the Hometown election who will be competing with her for access to R if he’s elected.

But can she chance remaining where she is, risking that her source of power, the Virgin Mayor, could be brought down?

Most likely a new mayor would see her as excess baggage

She might not be able to trickle up to this mayor since most of the insiders in her current town are aware of her antics, and would no doubt do things to block her.

Besides, who ever replaces the Virgin Mayor will be someone the Neighboring Mayor will have a voice in choosing, and since the Neighboring Mayor doesn’t trust her, neither will the new mayor he selects.

Even if the Virgin Mayor survives his legal ordeal, her position is not much improved.

She has already trickled up as far in that circle as she can, and from what some insiders claim, most of those in the inner circle do not take her as seriously as she takes herself.

My guess is she’ll move on as soon as an opportunity presents itself, and the best opportunity currently, is the Hometown election.

 

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