El Picador was nearly knocked clean out of the saddle when he saw a tiny paragraph in the Lange fish-wrap reporting that Juan Vigil had abruptly resigned his lofty position as Larry's side-kick and all-around hatchet-man. According to the article, he did this on Monday, which of course was Labor day. Now, that is a very old political trick. You put out the shocking news on a holiday or weekend, hoping no one will notice until you get a chance to get the spin going.
Why the sudden departure? Some speculate that the Shrub's recent invasion of our bucolic burg as the guest of hizzoner prompted Juan to ask for his walking papers. Juan is, of course, a long-time, old school democrat and may have taken offense at our self-proclaimed "independent"mayor's obsequious fawning over George the Tongue-Tied. El Picador does not subscribe to this theory. For starters, does Juan seem like the sort who would throw away an easy $90k per year on principle? Come on, people!! Also, one would think that a resignation based on such lofty moral grounds would have been milked for more golden pub---and would be accompanied by a 'heartfelt' statement at the least as well as an offer to stay on during a transition period. But what we got was a very quiet and very sudden departure announced while everyone who would care is drunk at the lake.
This smacks more of either a brewing scandal, or a sudden falling out with hizzoner. Favoring the former is the fact (see the Trib, June 11, 2006) that Vigil was interviewed extensively by the FBI in the course of the Manny Aragon court-house investigation. But my guess is that he and Larry had some big and very sudden disagreement. As anyone who has ever crossed swords with Larry can attest, hizzzoner can get pretty nasty when openly confronted.
Maybe Juan had finally had all he could take of Larry's BS. If so, El Picador tips his hat to Mr. Vigil. Better late than never!
On a related note, El Picador was sickened by the completely ridiculous coverage of the cell-tower--er, pine tree--unveiling in the latest issue of the Vision. Horrible, even by Vision standards. Take a look for yourselves--no further comment is necessary!!
Interestingly, El Picador's own cell, which once worked very well everywhere in Los Ranchos, is now cutting out frequently. This despite re-programming and upgrading to the latest digital technology. So will El Picador be safer and get good 911 coverage in the village? Yes he will, because his land-line is intact!
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One other possibility. Since Mayor Wigboy was shooting off his mouth that the visit wasn't going to cost the Village anything, if he then spent money on sprucing things up before the visit, the Administrator probably couldn't just stand by and let those statements go unchallenged.
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