The war never stops. Tuesday, January 29, 2013

 

(from an alternative journal)

 

Just when you think things settle down, you get hit in the side of the head with something new,

In this case, she appears to be making a move on D.

“She asked to meet with me to talk about some things off the record,” he said.

This is a move that I figured had to come at some point, since he fits the profile, and she has been keeping tabs on him through A – who would have informed her that he has no girlfriend, something all the women kid him about.

He is pudgy and has self image problems, and so it the perfect target for her, who seems to feed off his kind the say way my one-time girlfriend Peggy did way back when.

The move also became more evident once she started to call around and even hit on the mayor’s Chief Rival, who she once mocked behind his back.

She seems to have only one tool, and she intends to use it. How effective she will be depend on D, who I have told very little, but who must suspect something and knows to be wary. But wary or not, D is vulnerable, and through him, she hopes to continue the agenda she started when she was a writer here.

This again raises the basic question as to which came first the chicken or the egg, did she start working for RR before she came to our office or after, or was she hired by the State Senator prior to her coming on (and with the help of our original boss) only to find RR as good fit for providing her the protection she needs.

Her latest move also suggests that she has a set plan, and it may not be to be the star of our office so much as to use our office for her own purposes – which may be to damage The Congressman and the Small Man on RR’s behalf.

This may explain why she reached out to C– a known enemy of the Small Man enemy, and Chief Rival, and tried to talk to Richard (The assistant to the Congressman’s PR person and the son of a close Small Man ally), all in an effort to continue so assault she started when she still wrote for us.

If she still controls the owner and our former temporary boss, using D might work.

But then, her goal may be simply to destroy D and make room for her own return.

But I suspect this last bit is wrong.

She knows she can’t come back so she must operate more like a puppet master, control the office from outside – making sure D does what she wants, clearing the way for this through the owner.

This may be a miscalculation on her part in that it depends on too many elements working together. She has also won the distrust of too many people outside our office such as the Small Man, the Neighboring Mayor, The Congressman and others, for her to come back and must operate by stealth, weakening her ability to keep control of everyone.

D may not fall into line the way our owner did or our former temporary boss, being a bit wiser to her from the start. But since this is how she has always controlled situations, she must do what she must do to try and make it work, perhaps a last-ditch desperate move before the whole scheme falls apart.

If the Virgin Mayor survives his court battle, she’ll retain strength, but she may not be able to manipulate our office

I haven’t’ a clue as to what her ultimate objective is. This can’t be simply pushing RR’s agenda. Perhaps her new career is as a political operative, if so then, she is stepping into a fish tank full of sharks that are much better at this game than she is.

“They’re amateurs,” Tom told me.

 

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