Silence of Bobbie Singh-Allen's Lambs - Cowardice and Fear of Elk Grove elected officials; NRA Gun money anyone?
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| Will Elk Grove Democratic elected officials on the Elk Grove City Council and Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Trustees who obediently follow Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen be like lambs led to the slaughter house? | |
In less than four years as Elk Grove mayor, Bobbie Singh-Allen has consolidated power among elected officials at a level never seen in the city's 24-year history. Never one to waste that power, the mayor has exerted influence over the local officials much like Donald J. Trump has over the entire Republican party.
Save for Elk Grove District 3 City Councilman Kevin Spease, Singh-Allen has pressed Councilmembers Darren Suen, Sergio Robles, and Rod Brewer to follow her commands unquestioned. Of those three, it is astounding that Suen, who is the longest-tenured city council member, has been rolled like a drunk on skid row.
Machiavellian politicians like Trump and Singh-Allen's ultimate goal is to exert power over others. With that power comes the ability to bend others to their will and, significantly, ensure that the power holder's aberrant behavior goes unaddressed.
Singh-Allen, a member of the Democratic Party, has positioned herself in this situation. She has become so powerful with local officials that she openly and gleefully engages in behavior antithetical to her political party.
This is the case of Ms. Singh-Allen's acceptance of $2,500 from tobacco death merchant R. J. Reynolds. To the best of our knowledge and research, Singh-Allen's acceptance of death merchant money is the first time an Elk Grove city council member, Republican or Democrat, has accepted a tobacco campaign contribution.
In any other situation, acceptance of cash from a death merchant or any other unacceptable behavior by an elected Democratic elected official would be harshly criticized from within the party. Some of the Democratic officials run from office primarily by fellow party members is long and include, among others, prominent politicians like Al Franken, Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, and Andrew Cuomo.
And yet, when it comes to local Democratic elected officials, there is silence about Singh-Allen's embrace of this merchant of death. While it is not surprising that Singh-Allen's city council colleagues are afraid to stand up and say this is an unacceptable campaign contribution given her alpha dominance over three of them, it is more troubling with Democratic Elk Grove Unified School District Trustees.
As trustees of a government agency responsible for our youth's education, health, and welfare, it is disappointing that Nancy Chaires-Espinoza, Gina Jamerson, and Michael Vargas are silent like the Democratic city council members. All their talk about youth empowerment and creating healthy behaviors is meaningless if they don't press and insist that Singh-Allen return the death merchant money.
Singh-Allen has so much power over them that these lambs are either afraid of Trump-style retribution by recruiting electoral opponents, or maybe the mayor is like J. Edgar Hoover and has dirt on them to keep them silent. Whatever the dynamic, these Elk Grove Democratic elected officials are Bobbie Singh-Allen's Lambs.
Will Bobbie Singh-Allen's Lambs ever stand up and tell the king they are naked?
Given Singh-Allen's penchant for embracing death merchants, would Bobbie Singh-Allen's Lambs be fine if she accepted money from the National Rifle Association or, say, Colt Manufacturing, the inventor and license holder of the AR-15, the semi-automatic gun of choice for the mass murder of students and others?
The only difference between these death merchants is guns kill immediately while tobacco products kill their users and other innocent non-users over years. Either way, until Bobbie Singh-Allen's Lambs speak up and repudiate this campaign donation of their fellow Democrats, consider them death merchant enablers.
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I'm hoping Mayor Bobbie mirrors Trump in another way and starts talking about "the late great Hannibal Lecter" during a city council meeting. I'd pay to see that performance!
I agree with the writer's take on this cancer causing, "death merchant" money that was gladly accepted by our elected leader. Money for her personal gain over the best interests of those she has sworn to serve and protect. Sounds an awful lot like Trumpism. The school board should be appalled and they should voice their displeasure over her acceptance of this money. Should they refuse, they are her "lambs." They will have affirmed they are not fit to serve our school board. They will have affirmed they don't take the students health and well being seriously. They need to resign. As for the city council, they, with the exception of Kevin Spease, are all puppets to the mayor and her wishes. They reaffirm this every other Wednesday night.
The "lambs" probably remember how Bobbie chewed up former Mayor Steve Ly and spit him out like a dried up piece of Wrigley chewing gum. Besides, no one wants to get caught in the Bobbie buzz saw and risk being excluded from the elite Elk Grove social club, or even face financial risk if their business profits from her policies.
When she was on the city council, didn't Stephanie Nguyen take a stand against smoking at public places?
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