![]() ![]() Randy Rowse, then a former city councilmember, won with a plurality of 39 percent. She came in fourth out of a field of six. But as a mayoral candidate, she chose to run her own campaign and didn’t fare well. “The point was to get the item returned,” he said.Īs a planning commissioner, Schwartz was known for being commanding and decisive. ![]() He said he’d have done the same no matter what the income level of the person who took it. Jensen said he dropped the charges once the rug was returned. He also said, “Deborah has done much to help many throughout our community over the years.” “Her knowledge of the video was concurrent with her returning the rug, but that was correlation rather than causation.” She brought in another rug for cleaning at the same time. She returned the rug, he said, when she picked up the three rugs she’d had cleaned. Thyne took issue with the notion that the video prompted Schwartz to return the rug. When she turned it in last Thursday, Jensen said, Schwartz said there’d been a miscommunication. Only after the security footage got into public distribution, Jensen said, did Schwartz return it. He said efforts to communicate with Schwartz proved fruitless. The rug, he said, was worth anywhere from $800 to $1,500. He said he also filed a report with the Santa Barbara Police Department. Jensen said he showed the video to a friend to verify that it was Schwartz. In the tape, Schwartz can be seen carefully folding the rug, placing it in her tote bag, and then putting the bag on the ground after the service agent working the front desk left for a back room. When Jensen noticed the rug was missing, he reviewed store security tapes and saw it was Schwartz who took it. None of us always gets it right.”Īccording to Mike Jensen, owner of Star Rug, Schwartz took a small Navajo rug - two feet by three feet - that he kept on display when she dropped off three rugs to have cleaned on November 15, 2022. “She asks for patience and understanding. ![]() “Deborah made a poor decision that she corrected on her next visit to the store to pay for cleaning several rugs,” said attorney John Thyne III. Now, a New Yorker to the core, Deborah’s passion is writing.An attorney speaking for Deborah Schwartz, the three-term city planning commissioner who unsuccessfully ran for Santa Barbara mayor two years ago as a champion of downtown business interests, conceded that Schwartz had taken a small Navajo rug from Star Rug Cleaners in downtown Santa Barbara without the permission of the owner last November and returned it only late last week. ![]() What does a 35-year-old woman who seems to have it all do when the rug is pulled out from under her? Kate's struggle to find inner strength on her journey down a slippery slope with a wealthy man leaves readers rooting for her to land as the ‘woman on top.’ For more information, please visit Deborah's website.īorn and raised in New York, Deborah Schwartz graduated from Tufts University and then obtained her Masters in History at Columbia University where she wrote her graduate thesis on Feminism in Eighteenth Century England. Readers who have dreamed of, or survived, a “Len” in their lives, will recognize themselves in Kate as she searches to find what matters most in her new life. While following her quest for a reaffirmation of life and love, including a surprising adventure, Kate’s story touches on the unexpected pleasures and decisions we face throughout our lives. Schwartz cleverly weaves self-empowering thoughts into her heroine’s exploits, undercutting the ‘damsel in distress’ theme and transforming it into the infinitely more desirable ‘woman on top’ paradigm. Who could resist a tempestuous whirlwind of romance whipped up by a wealthy Wall Street banker? But the price turns out to be too high, and self-respect wins the day. The seduction of enormous money, heady excitement and luxurious glamour make this a captivating portrait of the essence and excesses of New York. Inspired by events in her own life, Deborah Schwartz entertains us with a fast-paced tale of greed, high society and a very satisfying comeuppance in Woman on Top(Laudan Press). New York, NY, Septem– Returning to the single life after tragically losing a loving husband makes a young widow vulnerable, even if she is an attorney and an independent spirit. Putting A Ruthless, Greedy Man In His Place: Woman On Top ![]()
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