Another Ancient Chinese Secret Revealed...

You remember the late Ping Zu from Dr. Alinsky's clinic - the one who succumbed to unfathomable levels of B.S. Well, I had the strangest experience. Ping Zu's spirit came to me in a dream last night and he pulled the curtains back on some memories that had been discarded long ago. I think it was after his spirit read the latest installment - Part V of the Tasty Tidbit Summer Installment Readings posted last night, found on the upper part of the right-hand column of this blog.

In the dream, he kindled a memory of Suzanne Mulvehill contacting me back in later 2006, she said that she wanted to reach out to me after reading the blog, which I had just started. I can probably find the e-mail exchange. At the time, Jeff Clemens was Chair of the CRA and I was Chair of the Planning and Zoning Board. It was well known that Jeff was going to run for Mayor in March of 2007 and I had mused about the possibility of me running for Mayor with some people. After reading my blog, Ms. Mulvehill wanted to meet me for lunch to talk about this "great potential" and "encourage me to go for it all and run for Mayor." Imagine, being urged by this entrepreneurial genius to "grab the brass ring" and not run for a lowly City Commission seat. At the same time, the woman with five names, Patricia Fitzpatrick Oliphant Eisenhower, "Pearl" for short, met me a few times for lunch urging me to do the same thing. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." At the time, the existing Mayor Marc Druatz, the one who two years before beat out incumbent Mayor Rodney Romano, was planning on running for re-election. He turned out to be "that side's" choice for Mayor.

I had long buried the revelation that this was a way, if I were to run for Mayor, to split the vote of Jeff Clemens' supporters, so that their candidate Mr. Drautz would have an easier time in his re-election campaign. Of course, we now know that didn't happen and the results are what they are.

But the REAL revelation was that a few weeks after lunch, Ms. Mulvehill contacted me and invited me to a holiday party at her house on South N Street. I arrived early so there weren't too many guests there at first. Imagine my surprise when in walks, not only the Woman with Five Names, but Lawrence and Dee McNamara! It was obvious that they and Ms. Mulvehill were old 'buddies" and Dee turned out to be the life of the party. From where Suzanne and the McNamaras met, I don't know.

Given Ms. Mulvehill's vehement denial of any association with Mr. McNamara prior to her initial campaign and that he was "just a campaign volunteer," gives rise to many questions. One of them is, what is the "BIG" lie that is so important not to reveal?

Also, in Ms. Jennings' deposition, you will read some VERY foggy recollections of the day she went to the Casino to meet representatives of Straticon. They were to be the contractor/savior of the Casino building, part of the "Circle of Light" and stopping "them" from "tearing this building down." Who called her? - Jennings doesn't remember.

The name that you don't hear in any of these depositions is Annabeth Carson - the common link between all three - Straticon, Ms. Mulvehill and Ms. Jennings.

So, why all the foggy memories and no mention of Ms. Carson? What really was/is going on here?

PLEASE READ INSTALLMENT FIVE.