The best theatrical show in Santa Clara isn’t at the Santa Clara Players or the Roberta Jones Junior Theater. The biggest show in town is the theatrics on the City Council dais.
Every other Tuesday evening, Mayor Lisa Gillmor steps onto the stage and begins her Kabuki knock-down of the fine men and women who serve our proud city. From the mayoral pulpit, Gillmor’s single plotline takes aim at her favorite targets, the 49ers and Levi’s Stadium.
This truth-bending often contradicts the carefully researched information presented by the men and women who serve our city. If these city employees speak so much of a word contrary to Gillmor’s message, they are quickly dismissed by the illustrious mayor who, clearly, knows better than them.
Gillmor’s tired script offers alternative facts to the ones our city employees have researched with the singular plot line of disparaging one of Santa Clara’s greatest business partners.
It is a scene that Santa Clarans know well. Gillmor has done this time and again. In previous iterations of this play, city managers and attorneys have deferred to the mayor lest they fall down the slippery slope of a back-and-forth with Gillmor.
However, lately, the script has changed. New cast members Jovan Grogan and Glen Googins have found a different way to combat Gillmor’s half-truths. With unending patience and grace, they have sidestepped Gillmor’s gotcha attempts and offer up the one thing Gillmor does not have: the truth.
Grogan and Googins have not allowed Gillmor to bend the facts to fit her narrative. They have instead respectfully disagreed and offered full facts in the face of Gillmor’s partial truths.
They have held strong in spite of Gillmor’s unprofessional treatment of them. They have ignored Gillmor’s demeaning tone and spiteful remarks, turning the cheek at every verbal slap in the face.
Congratulations to the strong city manager and city attorney for using the truth to stand up to Mayor Lisa Gillmor and, in the process, standing up for the fine employees of this city.
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Milestones – Hypocrisy at its Finest – Opinion
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