To the Editor:
The story “Prosecutor pressured us to campaign for him,” which published in the Daily Journal on April 23, was enlightening.
Let me see if I got this right.
Back in 2019, Joe Villanueva called his staff together—while they were being paid by the taxpayers—-and told them they needed to behave themselves and act professional long enough for him to win the caucus so he could become prosecutor.
And after that things would get back to the normal, or in other words, they could return to their “relaxed atmosphere” and dispense with the “measures of professionalism” he wanted to temporarily impose.
Unbelievable.
However, someone on Villanueva’s staff felt it was wrong to use taxpayer funded work time to plan to help the boss win an election and to instruct the staff to temporarily behave in order to create the illusion they were working hard. Apparently, that person was so offended by all this that they decided to record the meeting.
Villanueva’s discovering that someone recorded him, during working hours, telling the staff to be behave long enough for him to win the caucus must have surprised him as much as Clinton was surprised to find out Monica had keep the blue dress.
And somehow, this elaborate scheme to catch Villanueva using his taxpayer paid staff to help him win the caucus was orchestrated by political enemies in order to oust Villanueva if he, in fact, happened to win the caucus.
What?
Orchestrated by whom, pray tell, back in 2019? Was someone so clairvoyant as to know Villanueva would conspire to get his staff to temporarily show up on time and dress appropriately to win the caucus that they planted a mole to catch him in the act by recording him?
It’s very revealing that Villanueva calls this scandal “politically motivated.”
Of course it was politically motivated.
Villanueva’s decision to call his staff together while they were being paid by the taxpayers “pressure” them to help him win the caucus election was purely, entirely, and completely political.
It is pure, distilled political motivation.
And it’s shameful.
Joshua York
Greenwood
