It was pointed out to me today that SEBA is run by a member and that member has one hundred percent release time. That means that the president of SEBA is a county employee who does no county work but instead heads of the union.
Tonight I attended the meeting hosted by San Bernardino County Employees For Change and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to discuss the decertification of SBPEA. During past meetings SBPEA General Manager Bob Blough sat in the parking lot and photographed all employees who went into venue. Knowing Bob’s history, I have no doubt those photos were turned over to Human Resources Director Andrew Lamberto so that they could be investigated and set up for termination. That is Blough’s modus operandi.
I guess I had what some might call an epiphany this week. Many of our readers would say it is about time.
You see, for the first time since the corruption scandal started, I genuinely want to see Mark Kirk, Gary Ovitt, Greg Devereaux, and others led away in handcuffs, booked and serve some jail time. Do I believe it will happen? No, I don’t. I still feel the Colonies Settlement is clean.
Everything else in the Fourth District office, however, is not so clean. But the problem is that neither Mikey and Moonbeam or the FBI will look at the real dirt. Mikey and Moonbeam are too busy accepting campaign donations from SEBA and SBPEA. The FBI isn’t interested in the kind of real corruption that goes on in this county.
In this instance, it is simply not the sort of thing the FBI will get involved with. I’m not suggesting there will not be arrests made, just not arrests of the county’s most corrupt individuals, except possibly Mikey.