Maybe some golf on County time? Long lunch trips to the gym and hospitality eateries? Or how about, going home early because there is nothing to do and you are bored? And the tracking mechanism for all these honest Abe’s; a dry erase board with sign out notes. Hell, if you have a cell phone and a pager, why would you need to be at work?

Moral ambiguity by all parties involved is hard to use as ammo for dismissal, but blatant theft of public funds by lying on your time sheet is cause for immediate dismissal. Let’s go after this guy with something other than salacious gossip.

Character is a rare commodity these days. My experience is that not a lot of attorneys possess it, particularly government attorneys. How about it, ladies; this is a chance to vindicate yourselves by doing the right thing and clearing the air, if there is anything to be admitted with apologies to the people who paid your salaries and benefits and to stand by another woman who may be experiencing worse than you did?

One big question not asked by these awesome high paid attorney’s is, if Ristow’s work performance issue being out of the office so much is such a big deal now, why wasn’t it a big deal when it started happening? Tattoo issue included.

Seems this long practice of Ristow being gone was never acted upon for a VERY long time. WOULD that be because she was dating Ramos at the time and being gone because she might have been with him?

Gee don’t ask that question.

Or did those witnesses/supervisors not have the fortitude to deal with the problem when it first popped up simply because Ristow was protected at the time?

Like we are to believe these supervisors are going to mess with the bosses girlfriend. I’ve seen that myself with both men and woman who are the bosses fair haired child.

Why wasn’t Ristow’s alledged behavorial problems dealt with then and there? Only now does it seems to be of concern to the brass. Did anyone say to Ramos, “hey boss your squeeze is starting to have an attitude and is upsetting the staff”?

ARE we to believe that there wasn’t any talk among employees about Ristow and the other ladies in Ramos’s life prior to the Sentinal article?

I think this report thus far is insulting to one’s basic intelligence that has worked within the County. The general public might think this is an awesome report, no doubt a couple of the papers do. BUT the papers have no clue of the culture within.

Thus far it reads like Stringer and Lamberto have their arms up these investigators fanny like two sock puppets doing the talking.

If this is another Stringer strategy, it sucks.

It is obvious Ramos lied to investigators, based on that issue alone, these investigators should have dug deeper and been more aggressive with the other managers and asked some very matter of fact questions.

Generally once you catch the primary suspect/witness/informant lying, all bets are off and the case is tainted.

Ramos lied about the affair, but everyone else is telling the truth about the retaliation, or should we say the conspiracy to discredit Ristow before the Ramos affairs got to far out of hand.

Might I remind our readers of Erwin’s allegations about the Ramos affairs as at least one motive for his prosecution. There is clear evidence to suggest that by the People’s own witnesses.

You decide if Ramos’s conduct towards certain BOS members and staff suggest subtle intimidation about this investigation from the start.

This is like the CHP releasing a report on whether or not a traffic fatality was related to rain without bothering to discern whether or not it was raining that day.

You expect your doctor to give you a clear diagnosis of the cause of your pain and then a protocol for its treatment and a prognosis for the possibility of success or failure of the treatment. If he fails at any of these steps, you suspect that either he is an idiot doctor or that some loved one has convinced him to hold back information from you.

So, are the lawyers who produced this report idiots, or what loved on of ours have convinced them to hold back pieces of information that would complete the logic. And why>

It’s not the good old boys fault, it’s the lack of exposure into Ramos’ piggish behavior that’s not becoming of an elected official. If the voters county wide were fortunate enough to see this he would not be in office casting a dark shadow over SBC. Now not only are the LA lawyers laughing at us, but statewide in Sacramento and Washington they are laughing at our foolish and corrupt way of handling any investigation. Ramos has been toasting all night, what cowards all who fear Ramos. Are you men or mice? We are watching you BOS, mayors, senators, congressman, and all who are up for re-election. Ramos will not get the last laugh, and you who coward now when the going is tough will also be easily disposed of come election time. Once Ramos is gone, we will not need the weak left behind taking the credit.

It’s not the good old boys fault, it’s the lack of exposure into Ramos’ piggish behavior that’s not becoming of an elected official. If the voters county wide were fortunate enough to see this he would not be in office casting a dark shadow over SBC. Now not only are the LA lawyers laughing at us, but statewide in Sacramento and Washington they are laughing at our foolish and corrupt way of handling any investigation. Ramos has been toasting all night, what cowards all who fear Ramos. Are you men or mice? We are watching you BOS, mayors, senators, congressman, and all who are up for re-election. Ramos will not get the last laugh, and you who coward now when the going is tough will also be easily disposed of come election time. Once Ramos is gone, we will not need the weak left behind taking the credit.

Mike has sat and ignored this malfeasance for far to long. The BofI is not a re-election arm of his campaign. They are servants for the county taxpayers. Time to rebuke the untold abuses that Mike has long allowed.

But how does Frank Pine, editor of the Sun, explain printing “Ramos is cleared” when his own reporter Joe Nelson did about a 3 month investigATION proving the truth of all the rumors. Huh, Frank? Dont ya think it’s a little misleading when you know the actual truth? Oh yeah, I forgot, Pine is as corrupt as his buddy Ramos.