That never stopped Willie Brown!

Even when the Bee first reported that he was thinking about entering the race, a couple of commenters mentioned both the Phoenix incident and the Sac High incident. I was shocked as I’d never heard either of these mentioned before yet they were public enough that Bee commenters knew of these allegations. So, I did a little googling and came up with the original series of articles from a Phoenix area newspaper and read parts of the phone conversation back then. It gave me a great deal of pause on the KJ for mayor movement. I recently read the full affidavit on the Bee’s website and it gave me a lot more pause.

I couldn’t decide whether I believed the allegations or not, but the one thing I came away from those articles with was the certainty that the Phoenix police wanted that case charged. I may not be remembering the details very well, but I believe they took it to both the city and county prosecutors offices and were turned down by both for lack of physical evidence and a likelihood of conviction. The other thing that struck me with both allegations is that none of the alleged victims went to a lawyer or law enforcement first, all of the allegations came out of these minors confiding in a trusted adult who had the legal requirement to report suspected child abuse. In Phoenix it was a counselor hired to treat the girl’s eating disorder, in Sacramento, it was a teacher and school counselor during a retreat. Gold diggers hire lawyers or go to the media…confused adolescents confide in a trusted adult, if they confide in anyone at all.

I may be more sensitive to this as a female so I should probably stay away from commenting on this subject again.

Just my subjective viewpoint.

I don’t think KJ is a public figure worth saving. When there’s smoke there’s fire. KJ tried to save Sac High, and as a graduate of the place, it wasn’t worth saving. The only thing semi important was the school’s long history, and give the mass crapitude of the Sac City Unified School District, that wasn’t going to happen. I don’t care what the Bee did, but it’s pretty easy to skewer KJ in some realistic fashion. Whether that article was appropriate, or not, is beyond my scope, and I wouldn’t even bother to delve into whether the charges are worthy or not.