San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsome and Los Alamos National Lab as codependents
Co-Dependents of the Month:
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, whose ex-lover Ruby Rippey-Tourk told her husband, Newsom’s re-election campaign manager Alex Tourk, of her affair with Newsom. Ruby was working Step nine of the 12-Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, which suggests that direct amends be paid to people the alcoholic harmed “wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”Reportedly, Newsom could not have asked for a more loyal and supportive aide than Alex, who resigned when he learned of this ultimate breach of trust. Paying amends, which requires taking responsibility for past misbehaviors and accepting the consequences, can result in unforeseen fallout”which is the reason for the exception. However, it is entirely up to the addict to interpret and many addicts must come clean for the sake of their own sobriety. It’s up to the codependent to decide whether to forgive.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory, which began random drug testing after finding secret nuclear weapons data in a former worker’s residential trailer. Police found about 1,500 pages of classified information among methamphetamine pipes after responding to a domestic violence disturbance at the trailer park. The former employee used memory sticks to download the classified data and sneak it out of the lab. The energy department still allows the use of computers with USB ports. The powers-that-be seem to need a course in identifying addicts and in grasping just what they are capable of.