She's got those crazy eyes.
Posted on 03/21/2012 8:31:55 AM PDT by SmithL
A little more than a month after enrolling in a substance-abuse program following a violent clash with an ex-boyfriend in a Newark hotel, Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer unexpectedly showed up for work Tuesday at a board retreat - and stepped right back into a controversy.
Her husband, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, accompanied her to the Alameda County Conference Center in downtown Oakland and returned later in the day to pick her up.
The supervisor's return, however, was marred by a new report that she had visited her ex-boyfriend, Stephen Chikhani, three times last summer while he was in lockup on drug-related charges in Santa Clara County Jail - representing herself as his attorney.
"She did not misrepresent herself," her aide Rubén Briones told us Tuesday. "She was providing pro bono legal advice as requested by Mr. Chikhani's father."
"Not true," Chikhani's attorney, Adrienne Dell, fired back. "Mr. Chikhani's father has never spoken to Nadia Lockyer regarding representation of his son. ... I think this is an abuse of power."
The rail-thin supervisor, wearing a black suit and pearl necklace, was all business Tuesday, declining to address reporters as she ducked from a morning session with her board colleagues into a lunch meeting that lasted 90 minutes.
"I just want to get some work done," Lockyer, 40, said as she emerged briefly from that meeting.
She left it to her aide to hand out a four-paragraph statement she had prepared ahead of time.
In it, she said she was "glad to be back on my feet" and was "eagerly" joining her colleagues in doing the county's business.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
In it, she said she was "glad to be back on my feet" ...If she had spent a little more time "on her feet", she might not be spending so much time in the headlines.
-PJ
“The rail-thin supervisor, wearing a black suit and pearl necklace” - what kind of shoes was she wearing? What shade of lipstick? That’s important stuff.
She's got those crazy eyes.
Note the not-so-subtle way she tries to medicalize her moral collapse and the very real possibility of criminal activity.
Politicians try to do this all the time, and it's becoming de rigueur. The heat gets turned up because they're corrupt as all get-out, they check themselves in to rehab, the HIPAA shroud gets drawn, the press nods obediantly when they're told "we hope the media will respect the family's need for privacy during this difficult time," the press passes that on to their readers and viewers. Everybody's happy.
Then, after a month or two, the heat dies down and the guilty party "returns to work," acting like they've survived intensive chemotherapy. People comment on "how good she looks." The guilty party says "it's good to be back at work for the people of wherever."
Of course, this formula only works for Democrats. For Republicans, this approach doesn't even get off square one. They just resign.
Stupid San Franciscans....
I like to think of them as "you'll come home to find your daughter's pet bunny bubbling in the stew pot" eyes. They are rather hypnotic - if you don't mind the insanity behind them.
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