The third time is not the charm

You gotta love election campaigns.

That's when you get the best, the worse, and the questionable insights into the candidates.  Forget about Rahm, Chico and Carol.

Let's talk about Rob, as in Rob Sherman.  It seems like the village's best know atheist wants the world to know him as Captain America fighting for what's wrong and trying to correct a world where evil brings virtue and justice none at all.

So as he peruses the suburbs in his Rob Sherman news vehicle, which is about the size of Delaware, he wants the world to know that Buffalo Grove voters should elect him the next Village Clerk and not incumbent Jan Sirabian.

Sherman has tossed about a few ideas, but nothing concrete.  His latest tirade comes from a closed-door endorsement meeting with the Daily Herald in which he claims Sirabian said Buffalo Grove residents are lazy.  Obviously, in a closed meeting there's no documentation, so we need to take Sherman at his word.

So he denies Buffalo Grove residents are lazy and is probably taking something out of context to boost his own image -- and a sorry one at that.

Consider this -- if Sherman is so concerned about the village, why doesn't he attend Village Board meetings?  Odds are he probably figures there are not enough people there to be an audience for him, so what the hell, why go.

This is the same Rob Sherman who showed up at the EPA hearing on L & L in his Sherman mobile to collect signatures for his petition -- but did not stay for the hearing.  Nice commitment, huh?

So where is Robbie?

As noted here before, he spends some of his free time attending various events.  As noted here, one was the car wash in Bloomington, or maybe it was attending a lecture on women's underwear -- or maybe it was attending a book club.

Now we're not talking a book club at a local library -- after all, why spend time with residents -- instead Sherman spent time with a group of female literary fans -- as in the "Naked Girls Reading Event."

Yes, our village clerk wanna-be just had to attend the event in July 2009 and decided to blog about it -- complete with a picture of he and some of the participants.  While Sherman is clothed, the participants are not -- they are, however, covering every nook and kindle with a book or bookmark.  Seriously. This is on his blog that carries the tag line -- Serious Journalism, Professionally Written. Serious about what?

Sherman defends his attendance by writing "...By removing their clothes, the girls stripped themselves of the artificial symbolism of importance that clothes attempt to suggest.  It was just like being upstairs, at home with my wife, Celeste, where we go about our personal tasks at the beginning and end of the day without regard to whether we are wearing any clothes...."

Yeah, right.

If this was the first time Robby wrote about young females, we could, possibly, roll our eyes and wonder what he was thinking about.  It is, however, the third such entry.

His flaunting young bikini clad coeds washing his car, or young naked women reading books, Sherman is doing little more than degrade women.  You could say that his attacks on Sirabian are not politically motivated, but yet another attempt to boost what appears to be a sexist ego.

Sirabian is not perfect -- not public servant or public figure is -- but she works hard as village clerk and when she's not attending to her village duties, she's working hard in the community for various charities.

As for Sherman?  Aside from continued self-promotion I haven't seen much on Sherman's blog about any charity work.

I guess a clothing drive wouldn't interest him.