Biane thinks that he can play the slight of hand. Look over here at the good things I’ve done and you won’t even notice the Colonies scandal. He forgets that most people don’t look to government for good things in the first place. They see government as a necessary evil and therefore focus on the evil.

To survive, Biane should be agressively defending the Colonies settlement and showing that he was involved in corruption in no way. He might even take a poke at his accusers. If he can’t honestly do that, then he should probably just resign anyway and make wine.

But note that the whole article is written not around “politics” as difined by matters that concern the people but around “politics” as defined by how insiders are going to convince the people how to vote. Paul Biane, Janet Rutherford, and consultant Chris Jones are defined in this article by this effort to attract votes, not by their vission in where to lead society.

This is what I term “pure politics”.

Therefore, if we want to get down to the roots of the cause of corruption in San Bernardino County politics, we should include the writing of; the standards set by one Joe Nelson–a promoter of pure politics over the needs of the people.