Saturday, May 26, 2012 – 11:30 a.m.
The race to represent San Bernardino County’s Third Supervisorial District has definitely heated up.
A contest where Former San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Chairman James Ramos is trying to unseat County Supervisor Neil Derry.
The latest mailer is nothing more than revenge play by certain political elements tied to Ramos.
Yes, Mr. “I was gonna run a clean campaign” Ramos seemingly doesn’t have any problem with negative campaigning any longer.
At least he’s learned something.
This negative hit arrived in voter mailboxes late this week.
Here’s the remainder of the mailer:
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Looking at the subject of the mailer. One could easily conclude that candidate Ramos, a desperate man who is polling behind Derry, is hoping either Derry or he win their contest outright on June 5.
If not. Maybe he should be!
This mailer is obviously alienating groups in this county that have remained on the sidelines in this particular race. And candidate Jim Bagley, the other candidate in the contest, has the potential of pulling enough votes from Derry to force a Ramos-Derry runoff in November.
During this primary, Ramos is spending $1.1 million, to Derry’s roughly $500,000.
Of the $1.1 million Ramos is spending, $724,700 is from Tribal and gaming interests.
But, the $500,000 sum raised by Derry is a spectre the Ramos camp never counted on.
Why? It gave Derry resources to label Ramos early and often.
A late $200,000 surge in Derry money has reportedly upset Ramos’ paid campaign staff and supporters alike.
And lastly, one can easily conclude that in the event of a Derry-Ramos runoff, Derry, based on this hit mailer theme, will likely have whatever funding he needs to secure reelection.
Ramos probably should have checked with fellow college board trustee and former State Assemblyman John Longville before running this mailer.
Longville recently played the same theme, shackles and all, in his campaign for a seat on the San Bernardino City Council.
The result for Longville?
He was crushed by newly-elected Councilman, and political newcomer, Robert Jenkins.
Check out the TRUTH Ramos and his fellow tribal cousins WANT TO KEEP DERRY FROM EXPOSING…Derry is our man because he will not let Ramos’ lies and none sense weaken his fight and love for our county and country!
http://iestreetlife.aforumfree.com/t206-mexican-mafia-case-ends
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125736987377028727.html
James Ramos and ALL tribes in California FEAR Derry!!!
Derry’s love for his country is a threat to the tribes!!
MERLE HAGGARD, RAMOS IS “WALKIN’ ON THE FIGHTIN’ SIDE” of us Americans!
…They love our milk an’ honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin’.
When they’re runnin’ down my country, hoss,
They’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
Yeah, walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
Runnin’ down the way of life,
Our fightin’ men have fought and died to keep.
If you don’t love it, leave it:
Let this song I’m singin’ be a warnin’.
If you’re runnin’ down my country, man,
You’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
WARNING…this Mexican Mafia crime is not a made up flier, it has been spilling into our neighborhoods and communities with the assistance of SAN MANUEL INDIANS CHIEF JAMES RAMOS. RAMOS AND HIS TRIBE RECEIVE MILLIONS IN PROFITS FROM THE DRUG TRAFFICKING ACTIVITY.
Derry is in trouble if he can’t get at least 45%. By November everyone will remember these fliers much more.
By November, everybody is going to be so tired of the one-note Ramos campaign that he will get crucified as all of Bagley’s votes will cross to Derry.
The Ramos campaign can have all the wet dreams they want, their guy can’t win in the 3rd.
HA HA HA,you guys started all the negative stuff and now you are crying foul. Ramos is shooting real bullets not the blanks Derry has been shooting. Stop being a bunch of pathetic hermaphrodites and face the inevitable victory by Ramos like men instead of sniveling like school girls.
Eventual victory by Ramos? you are delusional. Ramos can’t break out of the 30% range according to his own polling. If there is a runoff, Ramos isn’t going to get 5% of Bagley’s vote. Derry will trounce him.
Red Anon, you must be reading another blog and commenting here, because there is NO “negative stuff” here, just the truth as the newspapers report it, and as we witness from the decline of our neighborhoods and communities do to James Ramos’ protecting criminal gangs, Mafias, within his reservation for profit!
Derry has NOT been shooting blanks, which is why ALL California tribes are angry and annoyed at Ramos’ RIDICULOUS POLITICAL AMBITIONS, which has brought bright lights and exposed how the “Native Indians” really make their millions and how they are hurting our communities.
Admin…………come on! even you have to admit this was a wonderful mailer. This just has to be something that you can appreciate, isn’t it? If only Ramos could have given Derry pictures and criminal charges and a lineage of corruption like the one shown above. This is truely an H-BOMB.
Ramos has no plan to fix SB and its overpaid employees. What is his plan to fix the salary and pension elephant in the room?
Funny, you are an idiot if you think Bagleys votes will go to Ramos. Ramos can’t break the 30s even after spending $1.2 million? Sounds like a serious Meg Whitman problem. Ramos’ apologists don’t get it. He can’t get any higher…ha ha ha.
Ramos is the single most unattractive candidate you could find: No experience, terrible public speaker, no knowledge of government, no knowledge of the district or the county, member of a sovereign nation, doesn’t pay taxes like the rest of us, doesn’t have to follow the same laws as the rest of us, and is backed by the corrupt old guard of Hansberger and the rest.
Good luck with that!
Funny…….after decades of voting for the person who puts out the most campaign signs, these guys expect voters to change. The interesting thing is that if they do muster up the strength to change and actually educate themselves about the candidates, they certainly aren’t going to vote for a candidate linked to developer corruption and who is on two more years of probation……People aren’t buying this mafia crap and understand the tax exemptions of the reservations. The sad truth of the matter is that many who are publicly saying that they are voting for Derry will fail to do so in private, thus you have the desperation witnessed here on this blog site. Heck, I doubt his wife will even vote for him.
Anonymous #4:
I disagree that Neil Derry started the “negative stuff.”
The “negative stuff” started when DA Mike Ramos sent his investigators out to find something to attack Neil Derry with.
The fact that James Ramos announced his candidacy the day after the charges were announced solidifies the theory that this was another of Mike Ramos selective and politically motivated prosecution.
As Neil Derry states in the Press Enterprise, “The goal of the prosecution was to have me stuck in court throughout this election cycle.”
This proved unsuccessful when the Attorney General decided to dismiss the two felony charges.
OOF………..Derry brought that on himself when he broke the law and whent back on his campaign promise to fight corruption. Instead, he dove right in and became part and parcel with the corruption.
Well Well’s words are worth repeating!!!!!!!!!!!
“Ramos is the single most unattractive candidate you could find:
No experience, terrible public speaker, no knowledge of government, no
knowledge of the district or the county, member of a sovereign nation,
doesn’t pay taxes like the rest of us, doesn’t have to follow the same
laws as the rest of us “
It is a shame that Mike Ramos has been able to manipulate this process. Mikey laid the ground work for this by filing politically motivated charges against Derry. Charges that shouldn’t have ever been filed. We have so many serious issues in our county and all I see is a bunch of politians, who seem to only be motivated by keeping their own high paying jobs.
CRIMES AND MURDERS ARE SOARING IN SAN BERNARDINO UNLIKE EVER BEFORE!
A dozen members of the Mexican mafia were arrested in Redlands recently.
AND our District Attorney Mike Ramos is no where to be found because he is BUSYING HIMSELF campaigning for James Ramos and with SENDING PERSONAL “POLITICAL” LETTERS, on his LAW ENFORCEMENT LETTERHEAD NO LESS, to 3rd District voters denying James Ramos has any connection with the murders, drug trafficking crime and the Mexican mafia that James Ramos openly provides a safe haven for, and he and his tribe members personally profit from.
Maybe Mike Ramos should send a letter to us ALL in SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, explaining why he laundered thousands of campaign dollars, with his wife, GRETCHEN RAMOS, as his accomplice.
The FPPC noticed the shady business, and concluded that from his campaign funds, Mike Ramos had illegally made checks out to his wife, Gretchen Ramos, which she deposited into her “personal bank account” and NOT for “campaign reimbursement” because Ramos was NOT being opposed that year and NO EVIDENCE OF “CAMPAIGNING” could ever be provided by the Ramos’, so the FPPC FINED THEM FOR LAUNDERING FUNDS…
HOW ABOUT A LETTER EXPLAINING THAT RAMOS???
@Anonymous – It’s coming now – thru the Derry campaign…. lol
The empty letter… It just won’t be signed…. Hahaha