….WHEN THEY BECAME ELECTED OFFICIALS
Zak tends to answer questions that no one else is asking, only to have his readers wish they had asked the question themselves.
What has Mayor Bob Cashman and others like him on the council missed since July 1, 2008 when Wildomar became a city and Bob became an elected official? Where do his loyalties lie, now that he has been elected to the city council? When will he recognize his obligations to the community? Who is he to serve?
Cashman failed to recognize that he is no longer an activist, leading bands of small groups around the area in a limited quest for fulfillment of some vision, goal or dream. Cashman is unable to elevate his service from his loyal and dedicated twenty followers and begin to represent the entire community of Wildomar. As a result, he is about to be voted out of his office and reduced to parity with his colleagues (which he generally ignored at most public functions).
For example, Wildomar Magazine “googled” Cashman’s name and found the following volunteer groups that he has lead and been involved with:
- Wildomar Chamber of Commerce
- Wildomar Hysterical Society
- Wildomar Community Council
- Wildomar Incorporation Now
While each of the groups, on their own, may have a worthy reason for being, if the same persons are involved in each group and they are being led by an elected official, their existence takes on the undemocratic role of “special interest group” (hereinafter “Band of Sisters”). Cashman continues to tender his loyalties to these groups, rather than to represent the entire community of Wildomar.
One of the criticisms of “districts” for Wildomar (I voted for them and intend to see them implemented) is that it divides the city. However, given what Zak has observed from Cashman, the city is now divided into two cities; The Rest of Us in Wildomar (population 26,979) and Cashmanville (population 21).
Not only do the Band of Sisters from Cashmanville assume they have RDA PAC money to toss around (they once hefted $600,000 from the taxpayers larder but they had to put it back out of embarrassment), they “generously” offer free community centers to Wildomar as if they were passing out food samples at the grocery store. When they don’t have money, they come to the city council and get the taxpayers to cough up some dough for their Street Fairs.
They even have their own vulgar website dedicated to the humor-free insult of Zak and his friends as he proudly displays his First Amendment right to mock bad politicos like Cashman.
Comments may be made by citizens of “The Rest of Us in Wildomar” to zakturango@excite.com. Cashman and the Sisters can write to their own vulgar website.
