[quote=SK in CV]
You know usually I would agree with you. For those that knew her when she was mayor here, it is mind boggling. Something like a brain tumor is the only thing that makes any sense. If it was diagnosed in 2011, she could have had it for a decade.
And the article says she won and lost a billion, or something like that. She had a lot of money, (most all inherited from her late husband, one of the founders of Jack in the Box) but nothing like a billion.[/quote]
I’m not even saying she was a bad attorney or a bad mayor because from most accounts she was good at both.
But NO way I’m going to buy that a “brain tumor made her do it”. Anyone that buys that story is gullible, IMHO.
I think the story was exaggerating a bit and sensationalizing it. I think they meant she won and lost and gambled repeatedly over the course of many years. So they are counting many years of winning and losing. NO, no way the Jack in the Box fortune was anything like a billion. From most accounts it was no more than $50 million.
I do agree she probably started gambling from depression when her husband passed away. But NO way I’m going to buy that any possible brain tumor made her do it. And I’m not disputing she might have had the brain tumor earlier and it was not diagnosed.
But let’s call a spade a spade. She just got addicted to gambling. Happens to a lot of people. It doesn’t take a brain tumor to turn you into a degenerate gambler. It’s sad that this happened to her. But I guess the point of why I brought it up, which shouldn’t get lost, is just one example of many where people have huge sums of money and just squander it away thinking they can turn their pot into a bigger pot. Happens everyday.
In this case it was gambling on video poker. But with other people it’s just gambling in the stock market or other “good idea”.
