…..EXACTLY WHERE HE BELONGS
The Wildomar City Council meeting agenda, posted today in anticipation of the next meeting on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 includes the much-anticipated and desired vote on Bob Cashman’s successor as mayor of Wildomar. Wildomar Magazine is finally pleased that the early wisdom of the new council is about to become a happy reality.
As you will recall (no pun intended), the new City Council met during their June 2008 ”Norming Session” and agreed that Cashman could be Mayor for the first six months, acknowledging his “top vote-getter” status, but agreed that there would be a new mayor in December.
This was designed to make the mayor’s chair be a twelve month term for the future. It was also designed to prevent the citizens of Wildomar from suffering through an unbearable eighteen month term of Bob’s muttering and meandering style of running a council meeting.
Further, (and revealing a significant secondary benefit of truncating his term), the Mayor’s gavel seems to have empowered Cashman’s ginormous ego to commit the following foolish actions in the name of the citizens of Wildomar, to whit:
- Interfering with a construction dispute between the U. S. Post Office and the EVMWD that was ultimately settled through a mediation facilitated by Interim City Manager John Danielson. Of course, EVMWD Director John Lloyd was also trying to facilitate credit for Cashman’s ill-planned intervention. It didn’t work. We all know that Cashman merely held the door for all of the participants.
- Planning and implementing the invasion of the Wildomar Cemetary District by Cashman’s Band of Married Maids (there are some wacky spouses fomenting weird stuff in Wildomar) from the Wildomar Hysterical Society. Sadly, this attempted takeover, by “sit-in,” of a County entity reveals the amateurish “activist” mentality that pervades Cashman’s mind and that of his Band of Sisters.
- Cashman’s current standing as an apparent major player in the “doomed to failure” Cultural Five Parks Center, a previously-failed attempt from Sedona, Arizona, to impose a pipedream on Wildomar that is based on that failed park project.
There is a strange connection, sensed by Wildomar Magazine’s corruption radar, between the Cashman/Moore/Cultural Park advocates, the Hysterical Society, the WCC and the RDA PAC. All of the above are populated by the same persons and they appear to want to play city-builder with OPM (“Other People’s Money”). Or ZM (“Zak’s Money”). There is a spider-like web of Cornerstoniacs in the mix as well.
However, moving Cashman to the end seat on the council dais finally eliminates his projected ”aura of power,” his self-perceived “Mantle of Benevolent Benefactor” from his shoulders. He becomes a mere city councilman, shorn of his faux authority, with one, sometimes two, votes out of five. Thankfully, Cashman could never count to “three” with his ill-conceived interventions and pipedream wishes as Councilpersons Scott Farnam, Marsha Swanson and Sheryl Ade stood in his way.
For example, the ”Ade Moratorium” on giving Zak’s money to non-profit organizations, supported by Farnam and Swanson, has made the WCC donation for their Street Fair likely to be the last, if not the final, misuse of Wildomar’s public funds for such entities, given the dire economic times.
Naturally, Zak believes that Councilperson Sheryl Ade is the best candidate to replace Cashman (given her well-deserved reputation for ”behind-the-scenes” preparation and hard work and her proven leadership skills) but Zak is also practical citizen and believes that “anybody but Cashman” is a sufficient improvement to the city’s political environment if Mayor Swanson or Mayor Farnam becomes a reality, come next Wednesday night.
Comments may be made to zakturango@excite.com. However, once Cashman is ousted as mayor, Zak may permit comments to Wildomar Magazine pieces but only to provide a place for Cashman and his angry Band of Sisters to vent.
