Whipped Cream Difficulties

Today’s tale is brought to you by the town of San Fernando, where voters are trying to recall three of the city council members.

Fiscal irresponsibility? Criminal acts? Election fraud? No. The oldest motivation in the world.

Councilman Mario Hernandez, who has already resigned (but is still up for recall), was carrying on an affair with Councilwoman Maribel de la Torre. For some reason, he decided back in November to announce this. At a council meeting. In public. With his wife sitting in the front row.

Since then, the relationship has deteriorated, to the point where police were called on June 28th; both parties have restraining orders against each other. Hernandez has asked the DA to drop the domestic violence charges against de la Torre: as you might know from watching “COPS”, or living in California, this decision isn’t up to the alleged victim, and the DAs office states they will pursue charges if the evidence warrants.

More:

If prosecutors refuse to dismiss the case, Hernandez has agreed to testify that police officers persuaded him to pursue the report and get a restraining order.

Former councilman Hernandez may want to be very careful about that. I believe California still has laws against perjury.

Anyway, that’s two down. Number three on the recall parade is the Mayor, Brenda Esqueda, who is accused of having an affair with a sergeant on the police force.

In a memo last year, a police commander claimed he was prevented from placing the sergeant on leave by Esqueda and Hernandez. She told reporters this week, “We might be elected officials, but we still are human beings.”

I’ll have to try the “still are human beings” excuse sometime and see how it works out.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 11:45 pm and is filed under California Über Alles, Clippings, Law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.