Dear Marti, I read the following:
(From San Diego Magazine) THE POKING NOSE: With San Diego still struggling to stem the riptide of red ink, the city is “desperately trying to ‘refinance’ its debt,” according to one City Hall wag. “In other words, some want to stretch payments out longer for short-term savings. Sounds familiar,” she says. “Very much like underfunding the city’s pension yesterday to pass on the debt to our children tomorrow.” … Another one bites the dust? San Diego Social magazine has apparently stopped the presses. Calls to its listed phone number are going unanswered … City Council offices are buzzing about the recent abrupt departure of Councilmember Marti Emerald’s chief of staff, Xema Jacobson. (Former policy chief Don Mullen has replaced her.) A colleague says the departure is related to a new ethics complaint involving Emerald’s office, but Emerald says no. “Why would anyone start a rumor like that? Xema and I have been close friends for 20 years,” she says. “She made the decision to leave as part of a realignment of the office.”
“Realignment”? Don’t you think people from your office and the offices around you talk? Here is more what happened: there was an office ‘intervention’ where a number of the staff complained about the management style. Mullen threatened at the same time or thereabout to leave to go manage a Whitburn’s campaign against Ron Roberts. At first everyone thought Mullen was out the door. Then they saw Xema obviously upset and it was pretty obvious what happened. I could offer more details, but I think I’ll spare the people involved.
The real question is, of course, the ethics investigation… so here is a question for Marti: do you think the various people who brought public information requests were just fishing? Here is hint – they weren’t.