In California, Sex Offenders Get Elected Mayor

The former Mayor of Sebastopol, California, Robert Jacob was arrested this week on charges, according to this Fox News story: of committing lewd acts with a child ages 14 to 15, participating in sexual penetration of a child under 16, making a child under 16 available to another person for lewd or lascivious acts, and distribution of child pornography.   Jacob served as a member of the Sebastopol City Council in 2012 and was elected Mayor in 2013. Jacob served one term and did not run for reelection. Jacob’s term as Mayor and his success as a cannabis businessman, discussed in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, noted that “He [Jacob] outspent rivals by running the most expensive campaign in city history to win.” Jacobs is also known as a founder of a medical marijuana dispensary. The question here, is how did an individual willing to molest children get elected to a position of such power?   Doesn’t anyone vet politicians anymore?