Barbie’s in over her head. I first met Libby over 14 year ago, I taught an adaptive swim class, one of my students lived next to a car stereo store which was blasting him and his 70 year old mother out of their house and home daily. I had worked on some neighborhood projects, I knew that noise nuisance abatement had been used in other areas of Oakland and thought I could help. My friends lived Ignacio’s District enter, Libby with the elegant bureaucratic brush off, they tossed the problem around city agencies like a hot potato , and finally told me to call the DA. Years later when I went to her council office, she gave me her biggest insider smile and said,” We’ve worked together before haven’t we?” To Libby the smile and brush off is work.
Then she became my elected council person, with great lines like, “I thought I was Oakland’s biggest cheerleader”, “crime, I think about it all the time” or “it has my laser sharp focus.” Then there was her mayoral campaign with slogans like “Oakland hella needs leadership”.
Never mind that she’s a twitter twit, let’s talk about ending the inaugural festivities and actually doing the job. If Libby doesn’t want to appear like a vapid political lightweight or as the Oakland Tribune put it she’s one old , I mean “tough cheerleader” she should stop posing and start working.