(Oakland) Deputy mayor Sharon Cornu resigns post

[Newsjock]

Source: Oakland Tribune

Deputy Mayor Sharon Cornu has resigned, effective immediately, the second member of the mayor's team to submit her resignation just today. Mayor Jean Quan's legal adviser and longtime friend, Dan Siegel, also resigned today over the mayor's handling of the Occupy encampment.

In a statement, Mayor Jean Quan wrote, "Sharon has been a tremendous asset to my administration. We wish her well and I'm grateful for her contributions. I will be restructuring my administration and making additional personnel announcements in the coming days."

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19331752

[Lint Head]

1. Jean Quan should be forced to resign for dereliction,

[MedleyMisty]

2. So it is true!

I saw it on Twitter, but was treating it as a rumor until confirmation. And here's the confirmation.

I KNOW it's not at all on the same level, but it definitely reminds me of officials defecting from the regimes of Arab dictators.

[teddy51]

3. Wow, that has to send a stong message to the mayor. n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. lalala, I can't hear your strong message!

The mayor will simply hire some lackeys.

[msongs]

4. actually it is many individual police "officers" that oughta be resigning nt

[Response]

5. I have a feeling that your wishes for the police won't bear fruit.

[Left Coast2020]

6. OMG!!!! Are the Mayor's dominoes starting to fall???

First the attorney, now this.

So I ask the question: Who's Next? :shrug:

[Response]

7. I don't know. The two resignations took me by surprise.

I just don't believe that the police are going to start resigning.

[DocMac]

9. City Council. nt

[xiamiam]

17. jail..after conspiring with others to suppress free speech across america..nt

[tcaudilllg]

16. You might want to double check your intuition, because the OWS raid has changed the game.

Decisively.

[Bozita]

8. Reminds me of the "Saturday Night Massacre"

For the youngsters:

The "Saturday Night Massacre" was the term given by political commentators<1> to U.S. President Richard Nixon's executive dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973 during the Watergate scandal.<2><3><4>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

[tomm2thumbs]

10. The sign someone posted on City Hall's main door is a telling limerick

There was a mayor named Jean Quan
with a fetish for gas and batons

She was shaking her fists
and looking quite pissed

cause those kids wouldn't get off of her lawn

[Left Coast2020]

11. Beautiful!! I like it.

:fistbump:

[DeSwiss]

13. Ha!

- See? It's true. Brilliant minds think alike!

[tomm2thumbs]

15. aha!

... yes, great minds think alike... but fools seldom differ

(oops, did I say that? heh heh heh) Yeppers we were typing in unison, or thereabouts.

[DeSwiss]

12. From further in the article:

8:45 p.m. Sign hung on City Hall mocking mayor

Someone has hung a sign on the main door of City Hall that reads, "There was a mayor named Jean Quan with a fetish for gas and batons. She was shaking her fists and looking quite pissed cause those kids wouldn't get off of her lawn."

About 200 people remain at the plaza continuing to discuss future plans for the group.

- I always was a sucker for a good limerick.......


K&R

[Matariki]

14. The problem is that people with a conscience are resigning.

Where will that leave Oakland?

[xiamiam]

18. have faith in the good people of oakland..the mayor is toast..nt

[KamaAina]

20. So who takes over if/when Quan resigns?

Can she appoint a new deputy mayor? Or would there be a special election, where the low turnout would favor a conservative like Don Perata? (You think Quan is bad. This guy, who narrowly lost to her, would've called in airstrikes if he could have.)

[No Elephants]

21. Cornu is the fourth member of the Mayor's team to resign this month.

They are heroes; Quan is a zero.

RESIGN, Jean.