Wednesday, August 29, 2012 – 10:30 a.m.
It’s true that in politics perception is reality.
In the race for San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor deception to create a perception has been a key factor.
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians member James Ramos has engineered two themes in his, so far, successful campaign against incumbent Neil Derry.
The first being Derry is unfit because of his 2011 misdemeanor plea for failing to properly report a campaign contribution.
The second is Ramos’ portrayal of himself as a successful small businessman.
While Ramos, a lifelong democrat, has been successful at labeling Derry, a staunch republican, as a crook, the successful use of his businessman designation has been golden.
But, as with any charade, there is a downside. That downside being the truth.
Ramos has been telling voters his success in small business is something he can bring to county government. A excellent point if it were the truth.
But, in this instance, the gap between perception and reality for Ramos is more like the Grand Canyon.
Ramos has centered his campaign around small business establishments he operates under the entity Diversity Investments.
However things haven’t gone too well the past couple of years.
The truth is Ramos has been forced to shutter two of his retail establishments, both GFE Coffee House franchises, in San Bernardino and Highland, while at the same time his two other ventures struggle to survive, relying on Ramos subsidizing them with money from his $100,000 a month casino income.
CLOSED CLOSED
In 2011, Ramos closed two coffee shops located at 5244 University Pkwy in San Bernardino (Left) and 7199 Boulder Ave. in Highland (Right).
Ramos’ two other businesses, Yum Yum Restaurant, located at 541 North D St., in San Bernardino and Pepitos Restaurant at 26539 Baseline St., in Highland struggle to remain viable. The later routinely having an empty parking lot during typical lunch and dinner hours.
In the June primary Ramos sent a plethora of campaign literature far and wide telling voters he’s a successful well-qualified small business owner, who knows what he’s doing and has a plan to bring jobs to San Bernardino County, while hiding the fact that his financial image is solely derived from his status as a member of a California gaming tribe.
Now it’s all about hoping those same voters forget.
So far, no one has ever heard of the Ramos jobs plan or has ever heard him speak its substance.
Maybe some of those jobs he’s promising to bring will be those he eliminated on his own.
James Ramos’(ILL-GOTTEN) gains have been a result of his HOBNOBBING with the Mexican Drug Cartels and providing them safety within his Reservation for PROFIT!
James Ramos has NEVER been a legitimate businessman.
These coffee shops and phony restaurants are Ramos’(very lame) attempt to insulate himself by maintaining legitimate business fronts- which obviously cover or disguise for criminal activity.
Ramos should not make the mistake of being so sure of himself and his “empire.”
As one who knows Ramos, I tell you, he is as hallow and empty as his coffee shops and restaurants.
Derry is the one who was not allowed to call himself a businessman and had to change his occupation on voter information pamphlets to what he really is, a professional politician who has never owned a business.
Why would the good people / intelligent people of San Bernardino county want the better candidate. They will vote in Ramos, not because of the issues or what is in their best interest, but because of Public union endorsements, money and a Hispanic last name. This Is why we are in the bad shape we are . An electorate that won’t take the time to give serious thought to the politians they elect to represent them.
Derry is by far the better choice, but he will lose. Very sad for our county.
Derry has proven his willingness to be corrupt.
I could only conclude, Repairman, you are on the Ramos payroll!
What a disappointment!
#3 states, “Derry is by far the better choice, but he will lose. Very sad for our county.”
VERY TRUE!
SEBA, along with that Bob Blough fellow, knew it.
YET SEBA and Blough CHOSE TO IGNORE THAT FACT- SHAME ON THEM!
SEBA, the corrupt ones.
HA HA HA, even the people on this blog are throwing in the towel, Good riddance Derry. BTW, was it Derry that snapped those shots of the closed coffee houses? Probably did it on county time.
Mexican Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations in U.S.
By JOEL MILLMAN
“Cultivating marijuana in Indian country represents a new twist in the decades-old illicit drug trade between Mexico and the U.S., the world’s largest drug-consuming market. For decades, Mexican drug gangs grew marijuana in Mexico, smuggled it across the border, and sold it in the U.S. But in the past few years, they have done what any burgeoning business would do: move closer to their customers…”
“The area where Mexican gangs seem to be expanding the fastest is on Indian reservations. In Washington state, tribal police seized more than 233,000 pot plants on Indian land last year, almost 10 times the 2006 figure. Pot seized on Washington’s reservations accounted for about half of all pot seized on both private and public land last year.
Police are finding pot farms on reservations stretching from California to South Dakota.
These criminal organizations are growing in Indian country at an alarming rate,” says Chief Smith. “The [growers] on our reservation were sent directly from Mexico.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125736987377028727.html
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Does anyone know if CONGRESSMAN JERRY LEWIS has returned to Washington?
If so, would his staff back in Washington please have him look into this BEFORE things get worse back home- like James Ramos getting elected!!!
Ramos will, if he is elected, show his true abilities and vote, not for the right things, but to get along with his lackey cohorts. At least Derry has the courage to stand up to Mikey’s bullying. In fact, if you want to cite Derry’s cohorts as evidence of degenerate dealings, look no further than JR’s bedfellows.
And Ramos’s qualifications are ? Lucky enough to fool some former gang bangers into voting him casino chief?
Only in Berdoo would this ever be a viable candidate.
By Carl Horowitz Fri, 02/04/2011
“If ever a federal agency were a candidate for termination, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) would make for a good choice. The BIA combines patronage, outright corruption and ethnic separatism into a single package, wasting sizable tax dollars in the process.
Yet few in Congress have the stomach for a fight with supporters of the bureau, now with a roughly $2.7 billion annual budget. That’s not the only Indian agency in need of serious downsizing….
Back in the late 1940s, Congress set up a commission on executive branch reorganization, chaired by former President Herbert Hoover.
Among its hundreds of recommendations, the Hoover Commission concluded that assimilation of Indians into the mainstream of American society must be a top priority.
More than six decades later, our nation remains a long way from realizing that goal. Dismantling the Indian bureaucracy would be
a major step in that direction.”
Unwilling- James Ramos indeed was, “Lucky enough to fool some former gang bangers into voting him casino chief”
But now his “ridiculous political ambition” has backfired on him. Ramos has been instrumental in exposing the ills of his gang banger supporters, and all Indian reservations nation-wide currently providing safe havens, at a hefty PROFIT, to Mexican mafia cartels- and of course the Russians and other criminal organizations.
“The Mafia was looking for a new man” joke
The Mafia was looking for a new man to make weekly collections from all the private businesses that they were’ protecting.’ Feeling the heat from the police force, they decide to use a deaf person for this job, figuring if he were to get caught, he wouldn’t be able to communicate to the police what he was doing. In his first week, the deaf collector picks up more than $40,000. He gets greedy, decides to keep the money, and stashes it in a safe place. The Mafia boss soon realizes the collection is late and sends some of his thugs after the deaf collector. The thugs drag the guy to an interpreter. The right-hand man says to the interpreter, “Ask him where da money is.” The interpreter signs, “Where’s the money?” The deaf collector signs, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” The interpreter tells the main man, “He says he doesn’t know what you’re talking abo ut.” The main man pulls out a. 38 and places it in the ear of the deaf collector. “NOW ask him where da money is.” The interpreter signs, “Where is the money?” The deaf collector signs, “The $40,000 is in a tree stump in Central Park just east of the big fountain.” The interpreter’s eyes light up, and he says to the thug, “He says he still doesn’t know what you’re talking about, and doesn’t think you have the guts to pull the trigger.”
All you Ramos supporters, I encourage you to drive by Pepitos any time of the day. In fact, go there during the lunch hour or two. I gurantee you there will be no cars in the parking lot. Can you image how the food tastes like when they have to reheat the same thing for a week???
Someone, please send health department there.
James, have you had enough…this is only the tip of the ice burg…and the word out there is that may Chiefs are unhappy with you…they are sharpening their tomahawks, soon they will start beating those drums.
You can cut those puppet strings and step down any time… we will not think any less of you (at this point it’s hard to, you hit rock bottom)
Just call a press conference and announce that your people need you…and you’re going to return to your throne as Chief.
After your press conference, we will all go to Pepitos and toast to your courage, we may even sum up the courage ourselves to order lunch.
I don’t understand Congressman Jerry Lewis’ hesitation, is he waiting for lighting to strike him?
I can personally attest that James Ramps is a phony. I was employed at Yum Yum Restaurant at the time he purchased it and watched as he replaced the long time staff one by one with his inexperienced family members. He has done the opposite of bringing jobs, he only provided security for family while getting the image of a “small business owner” for political purposes.