POT CLINICS & THE COLONIES & MIKE RAMOS

In today's news we have a picture of the twisted priorities in this County. First with the DA's office already being over budget, they are pushing the busting of medical marijuana clinics despite Californians having the right to use marijuana for appropriate (physician prescribed) medical reasons. This budgetary arrogance and lack of accountability should not be a surprise for a DA that has cost $140,000 in investigation costs due to his moral indiscretions with a woman on his staff (so far) . Secondly, in the article in the Sun on the 12th of April (on the purchase of the $6.4 million office building from a partnership the Colonies was a part of), the DA's office admits it was looking for more room (but was denied the proverbial room at the inn)--good thing for the County--we would have had a DA's office budget that overran a year earlier. The most incredible thing of all is that that WHEN the DA's office was denied the space it claimed it so desperately needed and the building was bought from the same principal that cost the County $102 million just a short time before, NO INVESTIGATION WAS DONE!! This DA by making the decisions and delaying the action on the Colonies has created a permissive environment of abuse and or waste. Such leadership we cannot afford!