By Sandra Emerson, Redlands Daily Facts
Posted: 10/07/14, 8:14 PM PDT |
REDLANDS>> A political action committee opposing Neil Derry’s run for Redlands City Council has amassed a significant amount of contributions.
Redlands Residents Against Corruption, Opposing Neil Derry for City Council 2014 has accepted $25,622 in campaign contributions from July 1 through Sept. 30, according to the committee’s campaign statements.
The group has additional contributions pledged that would increase the total to around $35,000, said Tom Brickley, the committee’s treasurer, who donated $1,000 to the campaign.
The committee opposing the former county supervisor spent $154 during the same time period, according to its campaign statements.
“It’s not just a little group of powerful people in Redlands trying to push their own agenda. This is a righteous cause,” Brickley said.
The group formed with the purpose of ensuring Derry is not elected to the council in November.
Derry is among six candidates for three seats, including Councilman Jon Harrison and Mayor Pro Tem Paul Foster who are seeking re-election.
“Residents of Redlands should be very concerned that outside interests are trying to pick their City Council,” Derry said. “Some folks are very concerned about me being elected to the City Council because they know I’m not part of the good ol’ boys system that’s existed in town for many, many years.”
The largest contribution is from Reggie King, partner with Rancho Cucamonga-based developer Young Homes, who gave $20,000 to the committee.
King could not be reached for comment.
The PAC has received $1,000 from the San Bernardino County Taxpayers political action committee. Jim Rissmiller, former chief of staff to ex-county Supervisor Dennis Hansberger, is listed as the treasurer.
Derry ousted Hansberger on the Board of Supervisors in 2008.
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When you go to the website it won’t let you scroll down to the rest of the article.
What skeletons do the PAC contributors want to hide in their closet that Derry is going to expose?
Neil should be getting the very strong message that whatever office he runs for in the future he will get hammered. People know that Neil isn’t smart, isn’t well liked and was so unprofessional in both the councilman and supervisor jobs that the region has had enough of him. Notice that many of the contributors were former County Counsel attorneys that knew what Neil did in those closed session meetings where he tried to keep Jim Erwin and Jeff Berum out of trouble. Neil clearly concealed campaign funds and doesn’t have the character to be trusted in office. He’s just a crook in a suit.I wonder how much money Jeff Berum will dump into his Redlands City Council race at the last minute.
The Admin of the is blog (just like the mole of an ex-County employee that runs IEpolitics(dot)communism apparently wants Reggie to be successful in his quest to sour Neil’s reputation completely, post BOS Stupidvisor (kinda like the Devil of a CEO has done to LSW’s rep ever since public employment w/ ONT)… do you want to fill us in on the particulars Jimbo, or will you just continue to block my pro-Derry comments because it’s the easy way out?
#3,
WHATEVER!
YOUR ARGUMENTS AND PERSONAL ATTACKS ON NEIL DERRY ARE OLD, TIRESOME (VERY TIRESOME), AND FLAT OUT LIES.
ALSO, AS YOU SEE BELOW, YOU ARE LATE IN THE GAME HERE- WE’VE BEEN THERE DONE THAT… AND COMBED THOSE ISSUES WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB… THE RESULTS… NEIL DERRY WAS/IS THE HERO:
Anonymous on April 4th, 2012 9:54 am
Repairman, (#3)
The reason you sound so annoyingly ignorant all the time is because all you do is “READ THE HEADLINES” but you are oblivious to the reality of San Bernardino County politics.
Since your such a big fan of Neil Derry lets put the TRUTH about him out there- you can’t argue with the truth.
The ONLY thing Derry is “guilty” of is PROTECTING his supporter, who FEARED to openly exercise his constitutional, and God given, RIGHT to openly support whomever HE chooses!
HAD NEIL DERRY NOT PROTECTED HIS SUPPORTER, HIS SUPPORTER WOULD HAVE BEEN THE TARGET
AND THE THE ONE ARRESTED- I’D SAY DERRY WAS NOTHING SHORT OF A HERO.
District Attorney Mike Ramos, along with the likes of you, Rod Hoops, and James Ramos, only bring distress and fear to good, honest citizens.
You guys have only added to the vast wasteland San Bernardino County has become!
Electing Neil Derry will, IN TURN, inspire our up and coming youth, and all citizens in SBC, to stand up, fight back, and to restore our county, without the FEAR the “RAMOS’, HOOPS, and their cronies” HANG OVER OUR HEADS should we dare to voice our opinion.
@5 Denny go away. Hoops is not sheriff moron, it’s your daddy Macliar. Neil will win and do a good job. Ramos will have a great councilman in his city.
Derry’s case was DISMISSED right after the election!
#4,
“The Admin of the is blog … wants Reggie to be successful in his quest to sour Neil’s reputation completely,”
SAAAAY WHAAAAT?!!!!
As Sam Galbraith says, “You may wish to invest in a Reading for Comprehension course.”
Anonymous #6:
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Neil Derry’s critics to give an example of anything that Mr. Derry did that was not professional or in the best interests of his constituents, other than “money laundering.”
As I have said many times, Mike Ramos and his investigators looked long and hard to find something to charge Mr. Derry with, and all they could come up with was the alleged failure to report a single $5,000 campaign contribution that was actually fully reported. If that’s all they could find, they wasn’t much to be found.
On the other site, Red Anon likes to characterize Mr. Derry as a “clumsy” politician. I disagree, and think he was highly coordinated in a mission of making San Bernardino County a better place. I agree with you that the City of Redlands would be fortunate to have Mr. Derry on the City Council.
Those who keep bringing up the $5,000 contribution “scandal” know fully well that the charges were dismissed. They just don’t have any thing else to use as an attack hoping that low information voters will think Derry was convicted of a crime. No proofs, just accusations. And, they will say James Ramos is a great representative without being able to cite any examples or evidence.
Who is James Ramos?Isn’t he that Indian casino king? $$$$$$$$$
They will say James Ramos is a great Supervisor even though he is invisible in their communities and thinks Facebook is an appropriate system for communicating with constituents…lol