San Bernardino County First District Supervisor candidate Angela Valles looks to oust incumbent Robert Lovingood in November.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 – 08:30 a.m.
Make no mistake. First District San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood will likely be shown the door in November.
New polling making the rounds has Lovingood in some serious trouble.
In the polling, which was accomplished by both outside interests, and even Lovingood’s own campaign, the first-term supervisor is pulling less than 30 percent of the vote right out of the gate.
For an incumbent it’s a dismal showing.
Lovingood’s opponent, Former Victorville City Council Member Angela Valles, has the reputation of a being a person who’s tough, and someone who doesn’t take crap from anyone.
It’s a reputation that will serve her well in the runoff election.
Lovingood, on the other hand, hopes to use Valles’ twenty year-old personal bankruptcy as a hit against the former single mom, who struggled to raise children and hold down a full-time career as a warden for a private prison.
But. If this dated revelation is really all that Lovingood has to combat Valles, then he’s likely on his way out.
She has since married former Apple Valley Mayor and retired Sheriff’s Lieutenant Rick Roelle. The two make a good fit.
Valles appears to be taking a different approach. She is targeting the county’s pattern and practice of corruption and coverup.
The recent scandal related to multiple deaths of children under the care and supervision of the Children and Family Services Department is a hot spot.
It’s a scandal that really is far-reaching as to exactly who knew what and when.
Lovingood has the backing of the county political regime. Not that it means much these days.
He can write his own campaign check. But then again. He won’t be able to pay himself back once he loses.
So far Lovingood has looked to tout the county’s management of its pension fund obligation, by saying it’s fully-funded and taking credit.
Wrong! The fund lost money again last year and is projected to have a more than $2 billion actuarial hole to fill on a forward-looking basis.
It’s clear more taxpayer money will be needed to keep the pension system at eighty-percent funded.
Now Valles, has some good news to tout.
Her campaign is attracting some cash from donors. She’s been endorsed by the other three challengers that she bested in the primary.
Billionaire Conservative Charles Munger, Jr. has shown some interest in Valles, who is a republican.
Valles also has the backing of the Teamsters and is poised to garner a few more labor groups.
She won’t need much money in her own campaign coffers in order to promote herself. But the outside money will be needed to deliver a few body blows to Lovingood’s reelection bid.
I have been following the campaign for First District Supervisor and I know for a fact Angela Valles is for it’s constituents and will not take any bullying from anyone!!!
WOW a 20 year old bankruptcy?
That’s heavy stuff. NOT!
I’ll be real surprised if she isn’t targeted by certain officials before or after the election.
Having a personal BK is irrelevant to me. The BK law is there for any person to use. Angela is an Awesome lady. I back her up completely!
It will be refreshing to have an ethical individual in the supervisors chair. I pray she can keep her head above the river of slime that permeates our local political system.
Love good is a snake in the grass !
I met Angela when I moved to Victorville and became involved with the city’s various policies. I called her and I was shocked that she actually returned my phone call. She was really interested in what I had to say. She talked to me as anif my opinion actually mattered. She worked diligently to solve my concern. I know she will carry on the attitude of caring what her constituents think, listening and working hard to make living here much better! She has my vote!
She listens and takes action. She doesnt blow smoke up your skirt like most politicians. Shes got my vote and will always get it for whatever job she runs for.
Again, I say with the ignorance of voters, it will come down to looks. I look at the photos of Lovingood, and he is sporting the same off the rack jacket that I wear. His belly of experience is just a little greater than mine (but he is a few years older). Is this not the look that people want to lead them? Then look at the photo of Valles above. Does this look like someone we want to look up to for the next four years?
I am not a first district SB voter, but just saying!
Seems like a one-sided plug for this candidate. I support Robert Lovingood for First District Supervisor. Ms. Valles and Mr. Roelle, husband and wife, ran against Supervisor so he would have to run in the General Election because neither could win against him in the primary. Dirty pool…and dirty politics from the outset. I recently saw a Facebook post from Ms. Valles complaining about not being able to campaign at a particular event. It’s not what she said but how she said it. I wouldn’t think of voting for someone who whines when she should have checked in advance and then tries to get all her friends to share her rant on Facebook, improper English and all. I’ll wait until she has a little more maturity under her belt. I’m sure that will happen with some seasoning.
Lovingood should be defeated simply for not paving the Needles Highway county road. It is filled with giant potholes. This lack of action, along with the dirtbag Deveraux are ground enough to fire this incompetent hack.
Lovingood has had his chance to set the stage and establish himself as a getter done type politician with a list of accomplishment.
There is no noteworthy list of accomplishments. Absolutely none.
Lovingood is up to his lips in personal knowledge of malfeasance at minimum committed by his peers in various departments that have cost taxpayers millions. He is crickets and has been.
Assuming Valles is the opposite end of that spectrum as some of us see things now, we might see a regular 4-1 vote on issues with Valles being the ONE opposing. Maybe.
For those who think anyone with a documented reputation of calling FOUL publicly will be accepted by the corrupt ones with open arms and trust is a absolute idiot.
Valles is concerned about the CFS scandal which is horrific by itself but NOT the only scandal in this County.
The Colonies case is coming up for FULL public exposure on just how corrupt our system is.
SBSD is facing multiple investigations by the FBI.
The two largest departments with the biggest budgets are under fire.
So if Valles wants to just talk about the CFS scandal and be selective on what scandals to talk about and which ones to tip toe around is a Red Flag.
If she wins election she will DEFINATELY be part of having to clean up the mess others created.
She has talked the talk and if she wins election she is going to have to walk the walk quicker than most.
When the dust clears I’ll be surprised if there is enough money left in the bank to fund many of the projects needed in the 1st District.
Sept 12 the ticket quota lawsuit starts after the Judge delayed the start because of another trial.
That case is right out of Angela’s old stomping grounds good ol Victorville.
I would expect the SBSO to get a pass from Valles with her retired sheriff husband at her side.
In my brief time as a subcontractor for the SBC Department of Public Health, I tripped over many irregularities and scandals in the DPH, CHDP, CFS, Children’s Network, SBCFD Inspections, Human Resources, etc. etc. I reported these to my supervisor rather than doing an Edward Snowden, which resulted in me being fired illegally. The main problem is that San Bernardino County employees have a code of omertà greater than that of the mob. The Supervisors have never addressed this culture of corruption to my knowledge. I’m new here, but this problem may have originated in the 19th century, when the railroads corrupted California politicians, Republican and Democrat alike. I’m voting for Angela Valles, but I think ceceding from San Bernardino County and forming new 21st century demographically based counties, like Mohave may be much easier that reforming something so evil. The failed city of San Bernardino should be its own county like San Francisco. California should return to having two senators for every county, no matter what the Marxist judges say. Sacramento has to stop ripping off the counties; otherwise we should cecede like the counties of the State of Jefferson are doing., The new states should have a township system of government, so as not to disenfranchise the rural areas, which is happening now in most of the Western US. That is my prescription for fixing San Bernardindo County, California, and the American West.
@13 you are correct on the mob mentality.
The exact reason when it’s time to go to court we see settlements of some type or requests for delays.
The county isn’t use to being challenged outside the confines of their office in a public forum where everyone can watch when the ones they are after has MORE or equal dirt on them.
Just wait, I think we will see how compelling that is soon.
@12 that may be true, time will tell and it won’t take much time to figure that out.
If that dust up we had here not long ago regarding my comments where Angela came in here and called BS on me, and what followed with the anonymous poster calling BS on her, the results will be obvious when crickets follow.
The silence that followed told a story.
Battling politicians or detractors in the newspapers or your Facebook account isn’t to much of a challenge.
The newspapers stop way short before things get ugly, Facebook users simply block you.
Same for the blogs, but if your not blocked it’s ugly for the intended target.
We saw the status quo political strategies used against Donald Trump. He wiped the floor with all of them.
Let that be a lesson for the PC lovers.
I’ve gone to many VV council meetings to bring forth issues that have created concern for our/my community and Angela always wanted to hear more on the issues rather than just listening like other sitting council members. She has my vote. Also, I believe a push to separate south SB County from the North and create our own county would be a positive endeavor in epic proportions. We need our tax dollars to stay up here in the desert, not down in the IE.
@15 that’s good then what happened after Angela listened?
Yes #15, what happened after she listened. Josie Gonzales listens too, so she can cover the Counties’ A**. I don’t vote there so I have no personal opinions, other than the fact that I have seen the corruption in that county and I find it hard to believe anyone will change that on their own. I did think the sentence “who struggled to raise children and hold down a full-time career as a warden for a private prison” was a bit much. That had to be a decent salary and many of her constituents would love that salary.
This is clearly a slanted one-sided article. Nice arbitrary journalism here. Robert Lovingood and James Ramos stood up to the BLM when there was a German company who had an application to put 680 500ft tall wind turbines on the North slope of our San Bernardino Mountains from Lucerne Valley to Hesperia. Anyone remember North Peak Wind? Mr. Lovingood lead the charge in telling Bechtel NO to building 2500 acres of solar farm in our Soda Mountains. Another Ivanpah sized project paid for with our tax dollars using the wrong technology in the wrong place. Yes I support renewable energy. Just SMART renewable energy. Not these monstrous projects isolated far from where power is used so SCE makes the money transmitting the power and the developer makes the money off tax incentives. These industrial scale projects would never be built if the developers had to foot the bill.
Lovingood has been engaged with finding solutions for drought related water issues in our region. What has Angela done? Filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against her employer because she got called out by employees for her unprofessional vindictive treatment of employees she supervised. Get some facts folks. No way does 11st District need Angela Valles. Robert Lovingood has my vote.
As usual unbiased professional journism from an unstable “journist”.
Angela Valles is the last thing the 1st District needs. She whines when she can’t campaign at an event that her campaign didn’t vett. She cries foul and cries when staff under her supervision push back against her improper vindictive treatment. She sues her employer with a multi-million dollar lawsuit
and barely performs her duties because she is holding them hostage with her ridiculous lawsuit. What integrity.
Lovingood supported our communities when we were facing over 700 wind turbines 500ft tall on our San Bernardino Mtns. Anyone remember North Peak Wind? Robert Lovingood is participating in solutions to our drought related issues and how we will help our residents. Robert Lovingood recently led the charge to send a very definitive NO to solar on Soda Mountain.
Angela Valles is the last thing our 1st District needs. Robert Lovingood gets my vote.
Wow Lovingood stood up to a wind turbine company. Impressive.
Anything else?
When will he stand up to the corruption within the county?
It’s nice to see some are also selective on their topics when they beat their drum.
We wouldn’t want you to subject yourself to any retaliation from a politician.
Robert Lovingood will Landslide Angela she has no real campaign set up. She did well in the primary but Lovingood did poorly because of others in the race attacking him.
Vote out any incumbent