Ramos
March 21, 2014 9:45 AM
Anneli Fogt, For the Daily Press
VICTORVILLE • San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos on Wednesday night denied any involvement in a lawsuit recently brought against his election opponent Grover Merritt, though he said the suit raises legitimate questions about Merritt’s integrity.
“Its not my campaign, it’s not my political consultant, it’s not me,” Ramos said during a campaign fundraiser at the Green Tree Inn. “It is the attorneys that work for this office, the Public Defender’s Office, Child Support Division, that are taking him to court. I had no say in it. … I have nothing to do with the lawsuit.”
Ramos is running for re-election and Merritt, a veteran San Bernardino County prosecutor, is his only challenger on the June ballot.
The San Bernardino County Public Attorney’s Association filed a lawsuit on Monday against Merritt, alleging he reported erroneous information on his ballot statement. Merritt listed himself as president of the attorney’s association. The statement is written in present tense even though he was unseated from the position in 2010.
Merritt told the Daily Press on Tuesday that San Bernardino County Public Attorney’s Association President John Thomas instigated the suit and that Thomas is “some kind of golfing buddy of Michael Ramos.”
Ramos insisted his friendship with Thomas has nothing to do with the lawsuit.
“I haven’t even talked to John Thomas about it; I purposely did not because I knew the accusations would be (that) it’s political on my part,” said Ramos. “I’ll call (Thomas) a friend, but … I mean it’s a work relationship, he’s a work friend. … It has nothing to do with him being my friend or a golf buddy or whatever. No, nothing at all. In fact I can’t even remember the last time I played golf with John Thomas.”
Merritt defends his ballot statement, saying he had a small amount of room to write his qualifications and was aiming for a bullet-point, resume-style format and therefore wrote it in present tense.
Merritt called the suit “silliness in the political season” earlier this week, and Ramos was asked Wednesday night if he though the suit was frivolous.
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ROTFLMAO… The man who cheats on his wife, writes checks of 10k from his campaign accountant to his wifes personal checking account, has the county pay for trips to go see his mistress, grandstands at press conferences, ignores the criminal actions of his friends, is accused of 20 differnt acts of prosecutorial misconduct, fires someone unlawfully, costs the taxpayers millions in settlements and sleeps with his employees, is questioning the integrity of someone else???? Wikipedia now needs his picture under “irony”.
Anonymous on October 2013
THANKS FOR THE PICTURE, so the rats got wise and abandoned ship- leaving District Attorney Mike Ramos exposed and standing ALONE … sweet!
Just the way I wanted him …..HE AND ME ALONE!
Ramos looks poised for a STARE- DOWN….
but that is not what I’m in the ring for …
Put Up Your Dukes Ramos!!!
“You see the signs,
but you can’t read
You’re runnin’ at a different speed
You heart beats in double time
Another kiss and you’ll be mine,
a one track mind
You can’t be saved
Oblivion is all you crave”
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Anonymous on October 18th, 2013 3:11 pm
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“YOU AND ME- ALONE” RAMOS!
YES, IT’S MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THINK ABOUT RAMOS ANYWAY I WANT … “a one track mind”…
NOW WHAT, RAMOS?!
Only a scumbag would support the dirtbag.
LMAO
RED RED RED,
Come on, you are the only one I trust around here, however, now you have given me cause to doubt you. Why are you accusing Jim of blocking your comments?
In all fairness to Jim, I’ve been blocked before, or I think that’s what happened, but I never accused him of making me, “persona non grata in an effort to stifle OPPOSING commentary,” I just waited (quietly pouting) patiently.
Me, visit the other site?? “hahaha” I don’t understand the allure of turning the hamster wheel over and over- with the same stale stench year after year of half truths, false accusations, lies, and empty gossip all leading to absolutely nothing- nothing!! Don’t you get a headache or nausea, or perhaps it’s just your comfort zone?
By the way, about your invitation, after all these years, you must have known I be would be greatly offended, yet, you still asked. ((((?))))
I’ll see you here whenever you drop by, I never get bored. But tell me, do you wear your RED tux over there? And just so you know, I would never wander over there; not even for you, or for a peek at your candy RED apple appearance. Who knows, I may get warts on my fingers or they may fall off, or my eyes may swell shut or spring multiple infections, or I may just turn into lice, a flea, or a crap fly. Oh yea, and another thing, I thought all this time you had gone to Russia, Canada, South America or some far away land to slay a dragon, but no, you never left the Inland Empire!!!!!!!!!oh no!!!!!!! %#&@^$& – a thought, did I blindly think too highly of you? Is this a rude awakening for me?
Damn, oh well, but I will say that I at least you’re respectful and mindful when visiting this blog by not regurgitating whatever it is you feed on over there- besides, so you know, that stench is all meaningless and irrelevant in the whole scheme of things- oh that’s right, you don’t understand that’s why you are over there, never mind, just answer me about why you accuse Jim, whenever you get around to it.
Red, your amazing lack of logic in your statement is baffling to me. You take five different, unrelated issues and wad them all up into this grand conspiracy that Mr. Burrum has single handedly been able to orchestrate. Nope, sorry. What do you have in store for us next? Maybe Mr. Burrum is responsible for our drought or maybe global warming, no, how about the issues in the Ukraine. Your comments are meaningless. If you plan to comment in the future, please do a little research first.
It is well documented in the history of drug use both legal substances and illegal ones what happens to ones mind after prolonged use. I think that is why they put those warnings on the medication bottles. We all know what the booze does.