The Sun is a strange paper. In one respect, the "endorsement" in the May 10, 2010 piece titled "Ramos pursues crooks, corruption" is little more than an advance piece on the political mailings we will all be getting in our boxes shortly. But what does the Sun really say--is it good when stood up to scrutiny??Nah..........
(1) The Sun does not deny his extra-marital affairs with County staff and people working under him is an abuse of his position. Wow! The Sun endorses sex with subordinates by a person obligated to uphold the County's personnel manual and state civil rights law prohibitions against it--why?? Does anyone find that offensive? If I had a subscription to the Sun, I'd be canceling it right now.
(2) The Sun misses the point on all the organizational activity which takes Ramos away from his office and girlfriends; membership in multiple organizations and trips to out of town destinations is paid for by the taxpayer and does not add to or improve the conviction rates; all you need to do is look at his statistics; getting 3,000 felony convictions out of 5,000 filings would be a failing grade in Los Angeles County where conviction rates are 85-90%
(3) Tough on crime and grime?? Hardly--since when is losing the one public integrity unit case you've taken to trial good DA work? Since when is a 60% conviction rate commendable?? That means almost half of the scum are back on the street.
(4) Only in San Bernardino does mediocre performance get rewarded by re-election.
Another comment to the Sun Newspaper endorsement of Mike Ramos by: FrankPineYoureAnIdiot [Altadena, CA]:
ReplyDelete"You admit he is a womanizer which means you know he lied to you and to the public. You cannot come up with a single corruption conviction. If it were not for plea bargains, probably due to the fact he is banging the public defender when he's not banging one of his own employees, he would have practically a zero conviction rate.
This man is a total loser and it is ridiculous this paper endorses him. I look forward to the Sun shutting its doors like so many other newspapers around the country".
Another comment to the Sun Newspaper endorsement of Mike Ramos by: [Dark Endorsement, Cypress, CA]
"Well funded campaign against Ramos?
The Sun does not say who is funding what, because they know it's a lie. No more credibility in the Sun.
There's no such campaign, just good decent folks who believe in pointing out the evils around them.
Evils the Sun has just endorsed.
With this endorsement The Sun decided character and integrity and plain common decency are out of style.
The Sun wants us to "get in with the times" and accept that multiple affairs, drinking and grabbing any female within reach whether they like it or not, ling and abusing your power of authority, intimidating and ruining good people's reputations, as normal. Well it's not normal and it's not RIGHT!
The Sun wants San Bernardino county voters to accept this dark and shameful period we are going through, to continue.
Our values and morals and belief in a better future will not allow us to be lead blindly.
We still believe in plain human decency.
Let's teach our young voters what is really important in an individual -vote for Frank Guzman or Bob Conaway".
Right-on, it is absolutely ridiculous to support anyone who has that kind of record, (pun intended). How are our young people suppose to respect moral values when they are seeing people like Romos being vendicated and supported, it is telling them that all of this is OK, it is NOT OK and we DO NOT need people like that running our government. It makes it very scary to think what this world is going to be like when my grandchildren are of voting age, what kind of people will be runing for OUR government offices in 20 years if people like Ramos keep get away with type of behavior.
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