Daily Archives: May 3, 2010

Matt Munson: The Question of Endorsements

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Endorsements, candidates go for them like a kid at a candy store. Voters look for them as indicators that candidates are for or against policy positions. However when organizations are inconsistent with their mission statements it clouds the meaning of an endorsement in an election.

There are two endorsements I would like to call into question in California’s 2010 elections, endorsement of Mary Bono by the Log Cabin Republicans and the endorsement of Chris Lancaster by the California Republican Assembly. Continue reading →

Paul Schrader: Official Photo of Candidate Paul Schrader for Sheriff/Coroner of San Bernardino County

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I am requesting an email or Facebook post of support from my  friends to your friends. It is estimated that we could reach 50,000 people by using this process. While this amount is staggering, we must take the first step. Your strong grassroots support will go a long way to make our election a success. Please ask your friends to vote Paul Schrader for Sheriff of San Bernardino County and to forward this information to their friends. Also ask them to go to our website at www.sheriffpaul.net and donate if they want a fresh start. Please repeat this once a week until June 8th.

I have attached a photo you can cut and paste, then send it with your post or email. I want to thank Michelle Sharpe for making the graphics for the photo. Lets Roll!!!

Thanks, Paul Schrader

iePolitics: Karma is a bitch, isn’t it Matt?

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So now San Bernardino County Second District Chief of Staff Matt Brown has outed himself as a witness for the prosecution in connection with the current Colonies scandal.   Surprise . . . surprise . . . surprise.

We could have told you that!  Well, actually we already did tell you so . . . a very long time ago.

Brown’s close relationship with Mark Uffer was reported last year where Uffer promised Brown a job if anything happened to Second District Supervisor Paul Biane.  And between FPPC filings, a politically-motivated Colonies investigation by the district attorney and attorney general, false accusations by Uffer, and a long list of other improprieties alleged against Biane, it looked like Brown just may need Uffer’s help. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Misplaced Evidence or Obstruction of Justice

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Last week’s turning over of discovery by San Bernardino County lead prosecutor Louis Cope to the defense counsel of former Assessor Bill Postmus and former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin has proven to be interesting, just as expected.

First and foremost, it is difficult to call the discovery “evidence,” unless one wants to term it “evidence of no wrongdoing.”  The documents turned over to defense counsel have proven exactly what Erwin and Postmus have been claiming right along:  Millions of dollars of taxpayer money has been spent to leave no stone unturned and the district attorney’s office has not been able to find evidence that anything exchanged hands that would constitute bribery or extortion. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Update

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I received a notification this morning from the “Friends of Sharon” Facebook page created by a friend of mine and thought it was time to give everyone an update.

A lot has happened in the past few weeks.  Life has taken a drasic turn for the better.  County Human Resources is still trying to do everything they can dream of to get me to put a gun to my head and blow my brains out but having really good attorneys makes all the difference in the world.  Unlike the county’s attorneys, my attorneys have actually argued cases in a real court room.  Imagine that! Continue reading →

iePolitics: Hesperia Teachers Association

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Here is the text from a full-page ad that was on the back page of Section A of Sunday’s Press Dispatch.  I don’t know what such an ad would cost, but one would think that if one was going to spend this kind of money, the ad would be proofread before going to print.  The blogger who can locate the most punctuation, grammar and syntax errors wins . . . well you get a warm, fuzzy feeling for being an English major.  Any wonder why our children’s test scores are in the toilet?  I can only hope that those who wrote this ad are among the 171 teachers who have already been laid off. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Can justice be found in San Bernardino County? – Part 1

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Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.  — Author Unknown

Justice is defined as “the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards or law.”   In other words, in a county run by scoundrels, justice is hard to find.

In part one of this series we are going to examine the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, District Attorney Michael Ramos, and the relationships the office and its elected leader enjoys with the county’s criminal justice system.

Let’s start by defining the role of a district attorney in California.  California Government Code section 26500 states:

The district attorney is the public prosecutor, except as otherwise provided by law.

The public prosecutor shall attend the courts, and within his or her discretion shall initiate and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses.

As you can see, the definition is simple, yet broad.  The ability to “initiate and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses” makes a county’s district attorney one of the most powerful positions at the local level.  And when that ability is mixed with politics, it becomes one of the most dangerous. Continue reading →