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And Finally, You Say It Like It’s A Bad Thing is brought to us this week by Jacobs v. City of Columbia Heights, in which a city council member – Kay Jacobs – found herself facing a recall after she, “used a fake name and made derogatory comments about the heritage and family background of a person running for city council during a telephone call with that person.” This rocket surgeon called the candidate from her own mobile, which displayed the name “Jacobs Kay” on the candidate’s phone. After careful sleuthing, it was suggested that – just possibly – “Jacobs Kay” was in fact Kay Jacobs. We know, tenuous at best. Kay’s improvised alibi was that, “the call was likely made by her husband’s niece, a woman she described as having ‘low-level mental health issues.'” How’s that for getting tossed under the monorail? I’m not sure that Kay understands that, for many of us, “low-level mental health issues” is not a criticism, but rather an aspiration

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