{"id":3437,"date":"2021-04-15T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:33:09","slug":"in-california-sex-offenders-get-elected-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"In California, Sex Offenders Get Elected Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Mayor of Sebastopol, California, Robert Jacob was arrested this week on charges, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/former-california-mayor-charged-with-multiple-sex-crimes-against-child\">this Fox News story<\/a>:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> of c<\/span>ommitting 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.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u00a0 <\/span>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\u2019s term as Mayor and his success as a cannabis businessman, discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/Former-Sebastopol-Mayor-Robert-Jacob-arrested-on-16091948.php\">this article<\/a> in the San Francisco Chronicle, noted that \u201cHe [Jacob] outspent rivals by running the most expensive campaign in city history to win.\u201d 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? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t anyone vet politicians anymore?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0 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\u2019s term as Mayor and his success as a cannabis businessman, discussed in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, noted that \u201cHe [Jacob] outspent rivals by running the most expensive campaign in city history to win.\u201d 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? \u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t anyone vet politicians anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sex-offenders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In California, Sex Offenders Get Elected Mayor - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3437\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In California, Sex Offenders Get Elected Mayor - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. \u00a0 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\u2019s term as Mayor and his success as a cannabis businessman, discussed in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, noted that \u201cHe [Jacob] outspent rivals by running the most expensive campaign in city history to win.\u201d Jacobs is also known as a founder of a medical marijuana dispensary. 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