The piece by reporter Wendy Leung was fair and impartial, and it included quotes from all competing candidates for this seat.
Among those commenting was Mike Morrell, who has a fantastic message. A winning message that Morrell himself admits is strictly for the purpose of securing votes in his endeavor for State Assembly.

Here is the newspaper’s account of Mike Morrell’s statement to the press:

” ‘One of the first things I say is that I’m not an elected official,’ Morrell said of his campaign speeches. ‘I say I’m a parent, a spouse, a business owner, and usually that’s my first round of applause.’ ” (Wendy Leung, “7 GOP rivals running for Emmerson’s seat, San Bernardino Sun, May 9, 2010)

Like any good politician who can read the tea (party) leaves in 2010, Morrell knows what voters want to hear, and Mike Morrell is offering up the speeches and message points like a front end restaurant manager providing fried chicken breasts and tapioca pudding at Hometown Bufffet on senior citizen discount day.

Morrell admitted to the press he is telling people what he thinks they want to hear.

Mike Morrell has the right message. But Morrell, a San Bernardino County mortgage broker, isn’t telling the whole truth, and this experienced professional political campaigner knows it.

Mike Morrell is not an incumbent politician, that much is true. But it’s not because he is a concerned citizen who is suddenly frustrated with the current political situation. Morrell is, in fact, a perennial political candidate who has been rejected before by voters. Mike Morrell has stood in 1999 for US Congress, and again in 2004 for State Assembly.

In his last stand for office, Morrell was rejected by 75 percent of the district’s voters.

Morrell is not an incumbent politician. That is, in the sense that he doesn’t presently hold elected office. However, he is a longtime political candidate with an agenda of securing a high elected position, be it Congress or State Legislature, despite the different challenges and responsibilities facing both disparate bodies. In fact, had Morrell had his way six years ago, he would be an incumbent officeholder today.

Far from being removed from the political class he pretends to rail against, Morrell’s campaign is guided and stage-managed out of a Sacramento high-rise by veteran political insiders, and Morrell is using an imported political gun-for-hire from Downtown San Diego to lead his in-district efforts in his bid to finally win elected office.

Mike Morrell is not the outsider citizen activist he pretends to be. He is a political insider and perennial candidate making yet another bid for high office.

For voters looking to shake up the system and send a real message of change, a far better choice would be US Naval Lt. Commander Paul Chabot. Chabot is unquestionably conservative. He has never ran for political office before, and has appealed to residents without benefit of the slick-and-spin nonsense driven by Capitol insiders.

Genuine grassroots conservative voters should not be fooled by Mike Morrell. Military veteran Paul Chabot has put his life on the line in battle for America and is running on real principles, not message points delivered from Sacramento PR firms. Lt. Commander Paul Chabot is one of us. Paul Chabot has walked the walk.

Mike Morrell is a perennial political candidate who only cares about winning electoral office on his third attempt. Period.

Paul Chabot has concerned himself with more than losing an election – he has literally put his life on the line for us.

The summary of conclusions from a high dollar sexual harassment investigation about Mike Ramos makes one point that was overlooked by the main stream media. It confirmed that Ramos did in fact have an affair of long duration with one of his subordinates. Although, Ramos has repeatedly denied that any such affair took place, the investigation has proved otherwise.

This affair is one of over a dozen that were revealed in an Article published in the Sentinel Newspaper and subsequently augmented by others in blog postings. To date not a single allegation has been unfounded. Assuming that the numerous affairs are true, then what can you conclude about the District Attorney of San Bernardino County? Is he a sex addict? It would certainly appear so. It would also appear that he is not only a serial adulterer but a serial liar as well.

Let’s examine the issues.

Sexual Addiction

Introduction

The term “sexual addiction” is used to describe the behavior of a person who has an unusually intense sex drive or an obsession with sex. Sex and the thought of sex tend to dominate the sex addict’s thinking, making it difficult to work or engage in healthy personal relationships.
Sex addicts engage in distorted thinking, often rationalizing and justifying their behavior and blaming others for problems. They generally deny they have a problem and make excuses for their actions.

Sexual addiction also is associated with risk-taking. A person with a sex addiction engages in various forms of sexual activity, despite the potential for negative and/or dangerous consequences. In addition to damaging the addicts relationships and interfering with his or her work and social life, a sexual addiction also puts the person at risk for emotional and physical injury.

Behaviors associated with sexual addiction include:

 	Compulsive masturbation (self-stimulation)
 	Multiple affairs (extra-marital affairs)
 	Multiple or anonymous sexual partners and/or one-night stands
 	Unsafe sex
 	Phone or computer sex (Cybersex)
 	Prostitution or use of prostitutes
 	Exhibitionism
 	Voyeurism (watching others) and/or stalking
 	Sexual harassment

Generally, a person with a sex addiction gains little satisfaction from the sexual activity and forms no emotional bond with his or her sex partners. In addition, the problem of sex addiction often leads to feelings of guilt and shame. A sex addict also feels a lack of control over the behavior, despite negative consequences (financial, health, social, and emotional).

How is sexual addiction treated?

Most sex addicts live in denial of their addiction, and treating an addiction is dependent on the person accepting and admitting that he or she has a problem.

In many cases, it takes a significant event—such as the loss of a job, the break-up of a marriage, an arrest, or health crisis—to force the addict to admit to his or her problem.

Promiscuity, Infidelity, and Meaningless Sex

A promiscuous person has meaningless sexual encounters with numerous people.

The promiscuous person doesn’t even make the effort to create any kind of loyal relationship. To him or her, people are interchangeable bodies. As one promiscuous person told me, “I don’t want to be stuck with just one flavor of ice cream.” He wasn’t kidding. To him, people were just different flavors to be sampled and discarded.

Infidelity occurs when someone in a committed relationship is unfaithful to his or her partner. In the context of sexual addiction, the unfaithful person might be promiscuous or might be unfaithful with only one person. But the underlying emotions behind the unfaithful activity are the same: sex without intimacy or emotional involvement. (Note: if the infidelity involves an emotional affair based on a real connection, it might not be addictive behavior.)

What makes infidelity worse than promiscuity or meaningless sex with one person is the lying and dishonesty that accompanies the unfaithful acts. Ask any person who’s been victimized by infidelity and they will tell you, “The lying and betrayal hurt more than the unfaithful sex.”

The unfaithful person needs to go beyond just sex addiction. He or she needs to deal with honesty issues also.