Scherman to bring out top GOP gun - Rosario Marin to appear at Scherman’s monthly breakfast meeting

Scherman should be held to account for company she keeps


Former Treasurer of the United States Rosario Marin will appear at Elk Grove city council member Sophia Scherman’s monthly community breakfast this Tuesday, July 8.

Scherman is being challenged in her re-election bid to a third fourth year by Katherine Maestas. In the 2004 election Scherman garnered 33% of the popular vote amongst seven candidates.

Maestas, an active Democrat brought out local heavyweights David Jones and Darrell Steinberg when she announced her challenge to Scherman in January. Since then Maestas has been questioned about her whether her party loyalty was appropriate for the non-partisan city council position.

It is a fair enough question. However, Scherman has never hid her attachment to the Republican party yet there has been little or no criticism of her loyalty.

Perhaps the appearance of Steinberg and Jones with Maestas, both unabashed liberals, has frightened some voters of creeping progressive politics in Elk Grove.

If this is the case, then the same ought to be attached to Scherman. Marin, after all was a political appointee of President George W. Bush – someone who is hardly popular or well regarded in California or elsewhere.

Furthermore, one of Marin’s political protégé’s, former Huntington Park, Calif. mayor and council member Edward Escareno, was convicted of grand theft by the Los Angeles District Attorney. Escareno had claimed that he talked with Marin on a daily basis when she was in Washington D.C.

Is this to say that Scherman talks to Marin daily or is another corrupt protégé of Marin and, by extension, George W. Bush?

Of course not.

But if Maestas is to be judged by the political company she keeps, Scherman should too.