Let me reitterate that I first learned your name from the Press Enterprise article when you were indicted by Ramos. Your response was agressive, but not the usual claim of “politically motivated prosecution”. Your quotes had a degree of honesty in how you had come to your current position, and very specific claims as to the motivations of Ramos.

So I googled Ramos and came up with iepolitics.com. This in due course lead to InlandPolitics.com. In the cousrse of the past year, I have learned much about how various people thing and have had confirmed much about what I thought that various people think.

For instance, I have learned usch from iepolitics about the plight of the average county union worker. Yet, I have had confirmed from this that I am was right by not becoming one and that much of our national financial mailaise is due to the thought process of the average county union worker.

Similarly, on the websites you have defined your thinking. This includes both the thinking that got you indicted and the thinking that you will hope will be a successful defence.

But as you define yourself you are not necessarily perceived favorably
by those who read you. For instance, the union member who thinks they are being screwed out of their percentage increase and the union member who is willing to give up a raise for job security are two sides of the dame coin to me.

As the blogs teach me to hate political consulant Chris Jones, I do recall that Jim Erwin is also a political consultant and seems to me more like Chris Jones than different. Sometimes Sharon Gilbert and Dorreen Boker seem like two peas in a pod–both county emnployees with little knowledge of what things are like in the private sector.

We have been promised many things on these blogs. First, if the Attorney General entered the case, then charges would be dropped. Now that the Attorney General is in the case, everything that he does is suspect and we are waiting on the FBI to take charge.

All the while we are being promised great things when the truth comes out. But at the same time, we are only told of other’s falsehoods. And we are told that the truth will probably never come out, certainly not through the Great Hope Niel Derry.

The blog is getting weary without hope. I hope that you have reserved quite a lot for the jury that you have denied the blog.

This all came about when he told a teacher in the district to “Go **** himself” during a board meeting. Spence has been on his school obard for twenty years, but cannot point to single accomplishment.

This is the guy who says he can find better teachers on street corners. He has stated public education is “virtually worthless.” He knows more about nail palors in other cities than he knows about the education of children in his district.

Meg is probably happy that Spence is upset since no Republican in California has won a state wide election with his endorsement. He endorsed Poizner – lost big. He endorsed Lancaster in the 59th – lost again. He endorsed a candidate for the local school board – lost. Endorsed a candidate for Congress (32nd) and she came third amoung Republicans. Spence said she should win because she makes great carnitas.

He did, behind the scenes, support another person for the school board – a member of every organization and holds every political view that is the opposite of what claim to believe.

Everyone is figuring this guy out.

The sitation in Bell is outrageous. People should be held to answer. The purpose of the theme of the coverage on Brown is designed to focus on the grandstanding for political gain by an attorney general. He should step down if he’s going to act like this. If he wins the Gov spot, he’s only out of a job for a few months. If he loses, he leaves a few months early.

The vents of yesterday involving LA County DA Cooley revealing his investigation brings my point home.

Brown didn’t care to find out what Cooley wwas doing. He only cared about jumping the gun.

Rizzo was not abashed to publicly defend his pay and his actions. He even used the old excuse that he could have done even better working in the private sector, as does the average resident of Bell or San Bernardino County.

So Jim (and or Bill), Rizzo has changed things. It is time for you to move beyond the fine points of the law. It is time for you to move on from comparing the corruption of this public official to that public official. It is time to begin to describe how the actions of the public officials, the conty employee unions, and the county employess impact either positively or negatively on the average citizen of San Bernardino County. That may be the question that led you all into the mess you are in in the first place. You can begin with the effect of the gift of the Rolex.

If you can not make this transition, it would probably be better for everybody, particularly yourself, if you would simply shut down this website and allow iepolitcs.com to carry the load.

Therefore, when you attack the Attorney General coming to defend the people of Bell, you are alienating your own supporters. If you do not understand that, then you are not the political analyist that you think you are. Maybe you are good for San Bernardino County, but not good enough for Bell nor the vast metropolis of the County of Los Angeles.

Jim, your claim to fame is being able to negotiate the hardball side of local politics. You often identify the motive towards personal gain in the official actions of various elected officials.

How would you know? Why would you imagine such? What is Jim Irwin going to do for the middle and lower-middle classs citizens of Bell? It seems that they could use your honest services, if you are willing to give honest servicves.

Maintenence drugs are a large volume expense and mail order has always been an available option.

The force aspect on pharmacy selection appears suspect.

Especially if the premium reduction to the county was $1.6 million or 4% reduction in the proposed rate increase.

This just is not right. By the way is this a monopoly? Do anti-trust laws apply here? Is someone expecting to get a kickback from CVS or what? I don’t get it why would they do something this stupid.

We all pay a co-pay when getting a prescription filled and now they are saying we can only do business with one pharmacy. Sounds to me like they are telling us where we can spend our paychecks. Whats next a company grocery store and script instead of US Dollars?

I will be talking with Walgreen’s to see what kind of discount they might offer so that I can keep doing business there instead of at CVS. Screw the county they are not going to tell me where I can get my drugs and medications.

This just is not right. By the way is this a monopoly? Do anti-trust laws apply here? Is someone expecting to get a kickback from CVS or what? I don’t get it why would they do something this stupid.

We all pay a co-pay when getting a prescription filled and now they are saying we can only do business with one pharmacy. Sounds to me like they are telling us where we can spend our paychecks. Whats next a company grocery store and script instead of US Dollars?

I will be talking with Walgreen’s to see what kind of discount they might offer so that I can keep doing business there instead of at CVS. Screw the county they are not going to tell me where I can get my drugs and medications.

The mail order for maintenance drugs was approved by the labor-management benefits committee as a pilot program for 1 year.

The NCUA had better be quaking in their boots.

If Husing says they are wrong, then they’re wrong.

The city is bankrupt and all these clowns can do is stab each other in the back.

Biane thinks that he can play the slight of hand. Look over here at the good things I’ve done and you won’t even notice the Colonies scandal. He forgets that most people don’t look to government for good things in the first place. They see government as a necessary evil and therefore focus on the evil.

To survive, Biane should be agressively defending the Colonies settlement and showing that he was involved in corruption in no way. He might even take a poke at his accusers. If he can’t honestly do that, then he should probably just resign anyway and make wine.

But note that the whole article is written not around “politics” as difined by matters that concern the people but around “politics” as defined by how insiders are going to convince the people how to vote. Paul Biane, Janet Rutherford, and consultant Chris Jones are defined in this article by this effort to attract votes, not by their vission in where to lead society.

This is what I term “pure politics”.

Therefore, if we want to get down to the roots of the cause of corruption in San Bernardino County politics, we should include the writing of; the standards set by one Joe Nelson–a promoter of pure politics over the needs of the people.