San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos faces an uphill battle for reelection on June 5.
Jim Erwin
Saturday, June 2, 2018 - 10:00 a.m.
Multiple sources say San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos isn’t in a good disposition with just three days until Election day.
He shouldn’t be.
In all likelihood he’s about to get booted from elected office after serving four-terms.
Ramos apparently thought he had a fourth term in the bag going into this election cycle. He was wrong!
He had been playing the local media for years with grandiose press conferences regarding a series of now-failed political corruption prosecution cases, in addition to spooning Gerber to reporters over phony half-baked initiatives.
Let’s also not forget about Ramos’ feigned concern for crime victims and their families.
Ramos was even able to snow most of the Los Angeles-based KFI-AM 640 radio hosts with his phony nonsense. His effectiveness calls into question their actual competency for vetting of their own on-air guests.
The symbiotic relationship Ramos had nurtured with news staffs was supposed to be his key to victory.
It was far from it.
One task a well-planned independent expenditure campaign committee embarks upon is detailed polling on issues and voter demographics.
The Business Leaders for Fair and Ethical Government PAC, the committee opposing Ramos’ reelection bid, did just that. The results confirmed what we had already suspected.
First, Ramos had high negatives and weak name identification with likely voters. Secondly, a vast majority of voters were found to be obtaining their news from sources other than local newspapers.
So the earned media Ramos had worked so hard to create was his proverbial Achilles Heel. Ramos’ displaced and arrogant belief that he is well-known and loved by all was a false perception on his part.
Voters had already moved on from relying on the dying print news industry to other new-age media sources.
Just take the top four of Ramos’ ethical lapses that move voters against him the most and drive that messaging. Ramos, in political terms, is a candy store for ethical problems. He actually has more than a dozen really problematic lapses in judgement to throw at voters. But that’s way too many.
Just under 1.8 million pieces of mail was sent out from the committee. But it could have been even much more than that. That number was originally budgeted at 2.1 million pieces.
Three weekly tracking polls and a survey of absentee voters, who have already cast their ballots, currently paint an unpleasant Election night is on tap for the Ramos campaign.
Here’s what the poll conducted by Newport Beach-based Probolsky Research from March 2, 2018 through March 6, 2018, found where voters get their news information:
Just a few tidbits from the polling:
Local News Media Outlets
The Sun was tops for the local newspaper category at 23.2-percent, followed by the Daily Press at 13.8-percent. The top two were trailed by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin at 10.9-percent and The Press-Enterprise at 2.9-percent.
In the radio station market, those tuning in to AM radio is just 13.6-percent. That number speaks for itself leaving nothing further to discuss here.
On another front, local newspaper websites pull just 14.3-percent of voters polled. It’s a bad indicator for Southern California News group publications facing the axe by hedge fund Alden Capital.
In the social media market, Facebook is tops.
Even the Suns comment section within their articles don’t have but a handful of favorable comments for Ramos in total. If those are pathetic.
I guess the Sun could delete what they don’t like as SEBA just did.
But those comments were up long enough for more than a few to see.
Do whatever you can to keep being a Sheriffs Ranger or get promoted to Lieutenant.
Tuesday is D-Day.
I have talked to a few mountain area residents about The Sun’s article endorsing Mike Ramos, including an attorney.
The consensus is that mentioning Mr. Ramos’ excuses for losing The Colonies lawsuit was a poor strategy, and the excuses extremely weak.
For example, Mr. Ramos is using his decision to take the case to the Grand Jury as an excuse for losing. In my opinion, taking the case to the Grand Jury, where the defendants were not present to defend themselves, was the only reason the prosecution proceeded.
Many people are aware that one of the jurors, after sitting through 8 months of the prosecution trying to prove their case, said that Mike Ramos is corrupt. It’s difficult to blame that on the Grand Jury or the conspiracy charges being dismissed.
And suggesting that Jim Previti is a nefarious developer who might “have grander designs than just revenge” did not go over too well. Many people are aware that Mr. Previti was a former Mike Ramos supporter who has stated on the record that he is now supporting Jason Anderson specifically due to Mike Ramos three campaign reporting violations.
The Sun seems to base its endorsement on what Jason Anderson might do instead of on what Mike Ramos has done. It’s difficult to consider it as anything more than another in a long series of articles pandering to Mr. Ramos by a biased publication.
The Sun and Daily Repeat(Bulletin) are fools
Continued.. are fools to continue supporting Ramos
Why they have continued over so many years continues
to surprise me! Why they are supporting a ship taking on water
That will sink onTuesday is crazy !!
Yes, Soon to be X District Attorney, paybacks
Are a bitch!! It’s so sad that your family is now
Experiencing what the four defendants families
We’re faced for so many years!!!
Let the New Year begin come Wednesday!!!
Good luck. Keep up the good fight. And farce, you spoke of the one juror who spoke out against Ramos. Did you forget about another on the same jury that spoke in favor of Ramos and said the businessmen were corrupt?
1.8 million pieces of mail can’t be cheap and the end result will be a complete waste of money. God bless.
James mills:
First, the juror who “spoke in favor of Ramos” was on the jury who heard the case against Jim Erwin, not the “same jury” that heard the case against Jeff Burum.
And according to his comment (that Mike Ramos posted on his Facebook page), that juror believed that Mr. Ramos did the “right thing” prosecuting “Burum and his corrupt associates.” To refresh your memory, most of the members of that jury disagreed, as Mr. Erwin was not convicted.
Second, there were two members of the Jeff Burum jury who “spoke.”
One of them stated that he “never thought that the D. A’s office was corrupt until after this trial.”
The other stated that prosecutors “were pulling a fast one on us and bringing up things that weren’t true,” and that Mike Ramos has “lost sight of the morality of his office.”
I didn’t see either of those comments on the Mike Ramos Facebook page. And to refresh your memory, that jury acquitted all three defendants.
We will find out on Tuesday if your latest prediction is accurate. You have been 100% wrong on your previous predictions, so you have nowhere to go but up.
Poor James Mills. It took a while, but even Mike Ramos knows he is done. He couldn’t raise any money thanks to Janice Rutherford (who screwed herself too) and couldn’t defend himself. Even if he had had the resources, the evidence against Ramos was sooooo deadly, it would have only been worse for him. There are things people know about Ramos that this campaign never touched on, because it didn’t need to.
The especially nice touch was the mailer to Redlands about how Ramos covers up for sexual predators in the Redlands School District. It was great!
LOL James yeah that juror really strikes a serious cord with certain people involved in all this. I am sure he could of changed the majority opinion of jurors if he could have spoken to all of them alone.
I saw his text message to Ramos that was posted up. The real compelling part was the invite to get ahold of him he knows things. Sounds like he knows enough to get himself into trouble.
It’s unfortunate in one respect the defense didn’t put on a case because there were a couple witnesses who would have really put Ramos and crew in a hurt. I’am sure Judge Warner would have been a real compelling witness.
DA’s office, State Attorney General and a mass of FBI, IRS agents, 16 search warrants, hundreds of hours of two people wearing a wire and NOTHING of ANY evidentiary value for the prosecution, but a lot for the defense.
So we had Bill Postmus who didn’t help the prosecution, a idiot lying ass punk kid Adam Aleman who was easily manipulated, several lying ass County Employees who were destroyed on the witness stand, and TWO lying ass inept District Attorney Investigators who admitted they didn’t follow up on ANYTHING they were told.
And the FBI was no where. LMAO.
But Ramos has a Juror who knows things.
Sounds like a key defense witness for Federal Court.
Maybe the County can pay him expert witness fees.
But the bottom line Mike Ramos and ONLY Mike Ramos had the option to retry Erwin on the charges the Jury favored guilt on.
But the question remains would Mike Ramos be able to handle being called to the witness stand. That would include several of Ramos’s minions too?
Guess we will know for sure when they get deposed.
I can only imagine after Ramos’s bullshit rhetoric during this election it will definitely have to happen.
Time for Mike Ramos to kick some ass under oath.
Ramos probably isnt having a good day