I wonder what Chris Norby is doing right now…
We have been wondering of late just what kind of personality engages in the sort of obsessive, seemingly pathological hatred one politico demonstrates to another. Specifically we have in mind the abysmal, enduring, and apparently limitless abhorrence that former State Senator and Irvine resident Dick Ackerman holds for County Supervisor (and Fullerton resident) Chris Norby.
This bottomless well of antipathy even seems to extend so deep as the promotion of Dick’s wife, Linda to run against Norby for the 72nd State Assembly seat, an assembly district that the Ackermans don’t even live in, having fled nine years ago for the greener fields of a “secret gated community” in Irvine.
I suspect that Mr. Ackerman is motivated by more than personal antipathy towards Mr. Norby. I believe that Mr. Ackerman feels emasculated and is fighting to regain his manhood.
California term limits forced him from office at the height of his power. Once surrounded by adoring females and sycophantic subordinate males, he found himself powerless, impotent.
Then, a male rival (Norby) sought to achieve a higher position in the pecking order. Enraged by his impotence, Ackerman challenges the rival, hoping to regain his manhood. In doing so, he hopes to further denegrate the male challenger by defeating him using a female subordinate of Ackermans, thereby reestablishing himself as a dominant male.
It’s a theory.
I got a theory for ya, Ackerman is a ass.