A couple of years ago I was just getting to know a few lower-level politicos, one of them being Jessica Austin, who was serving as an aide to San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor at the time.  I had been told by someone that San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos was the “dirtiest politician in San Bernardino County.”  To be honest, at the time I didn’t really even know who Mike Ramos was.

I asked Jessica what the above comment meant.  She indicated she wasn’t sure as all she knew about him was that he was a womanizer and cheated on his wife a lot, a whole lot.  This was one of many conversations we had over the next year or so about cheating men and how much disdain we both had for men who could not keep it zipped up.  We also had a lot of conversations into the early morning hours about ethics in government and politics and how there is so little of it.  Jessica reminded me several times that her major included an ethics emphasis and she wanted to do her share to clean of up politics once she graduated from college.  She also said that she would never work for an unethical boss. Continue reading →