My Representative Mary Hayashi Should Resign and Never Run For Public Office Again

On Dec. 21, I sent an email to Dan Hatfield of the Contra Costa Times and asked that the group call for Mary Hayashi's resignation in an editorial. On Jan. 16, the newspaper did so.

The editorial states, "after denying she intentionally stole anything and alluding to the tumor", Hayashi wrote, 'I want to be clear that I take full personal responsibility for my actions.' Just what does she mean by full responsibility?"

The newspaper went on to say "we believe taking responsibility has consequences. In Hayashi's case, it means that her credibility has been so diminished that she should resign from her Asseembly seat or at the very least drop any plans to seek election to the state Senate."

October 21, 2011, I wrote a blog post stating that Mary Hayashi would receive special treatment and a slap on the wrist for felony grand theft.

A reader, T.R. Ollman posted the following comment.

"Michael, Thank you for throwing the first stone. We live in a Christian community, so those among us who sin must be judged in our hearts and decried publicly."

"What I like best about your article, however, is that the main thrust of its righteousness is based not on what she has done, but instead upon your imagined future in which she receives special treatment in her theoretical conviction. Thank you for showing us the way and God bless Pleasanton."

Obviously it was Mary Hayashi that cast the first stone at me and the constituency that voted for her to represent us. Mary Hayashi cast the first stone when she shoplifted at Neiman Marcus and was arrested for felony Grand theft.

I looked into Webster's New twentieth Century Second Edition of the English language, published 1979, for the definition of the word "thief." Following is the definition.

"One who steals, especially secretly: a person who is guilty of theft, or larceny; one who takes the goods or property of another without his knowledge or consent, and without any intention of returning it. A thief takes property by stealth; whereas a robber uses force or the threat of force."

When I voted for Mary Hayashi three times over the last six years, I did not know about her reckless demeanor and character, or her mindset for shoplifting at Neiman Marcus. Then there was her behavior denying it, calling it a mistake, to blaming it on a "benign tumor that is treatable and now cured."

Then after her arrest, she became a recluse, would not communicate with her constituents, but then appeared at the Oakland Zoo for twenty-five minutes to pose for a quick photo. Then she disappeared again.

If it all really was a mistake because she was communicating on two cell phones and accidently left the Neiman Marcus store because she was distracted, she should have maintained her plea of not guilty and gone to trial if necessary.

But, Mary Hayashi did not maintain her innocence; she pleaded no contest to misdemeanor shoplifting from the Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco. So Mary Hayashi really is a thief, and she really was not distracted, it really was not an accident, she really did steal merchandise from the Neiman Marcus store as defined in Webster's New Twentieth Century Second Edition of the English language published in 1979.