Some helpful suggestions from a former and current political committee treasurer:
(1) I hope Ramos got the FPPC (state) and FEC (federal) contribution and disbursement records for the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee to show what they claim to have gotten and disbursed.
(2)I hope Ramos subpoenaed the bank accounts for the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee (all state and federal accounts) and his public integrity unit gets copies of incoming checks and outgoing checks. Take a look at how the committee expenses itself coming up to a federal election cycle
(3) There is a ratio of how much is supposed to come out of the state account and how much is supposed to come out of the federal account
(4) Look to see if they ever set up a "Levin" federal account for local activities. (5) Mikey--do you recall the FEC fined the Republican Central Committee twice--the FEC has records, reports and recommendations which may be revealing;
(6) Rumor has it the the FPPC has a file as well, but never took action after they had to close cases due to budget constraints.
(7) Heh Mike, if this money was ill gotten, don't forget the FTB violations.
(8) Is the Central Committee really running interference with your data collection efforts and you are letting those potentially ill-gotten funds fund another election cycle?
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I really hope this drama is not just window dressing for what has been otherwise dilatory investigation and prosecution(just ask the laughing Irwin camp).
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On Guttierrez's retrial:
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How many pages of jury instructions are there going to be in the People v Rex Guttierrez case now? A ream of jury instructions? A sure way to turn the jury off. A federal judge one time told an attorney in a case I was defending, if you need more than a couple two or three good counts in a case, you don't have a case worth the paper it is written on.
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I have a story about Rex--I recall meeting him once or twice in passing, but this story is a bit more of what legends are made of. When Rex was running for Congress, he personally wore out a half dozen pair or shoes walking streets, knocking on doors and meeting people. Rex worked hard for something, believed in meeting the people he wanted to serve and the process. Unless a lot changed, that is a populist spirit that I find it hard to would get so corrupted...but with that said, I remember breaking bread with Bill Postmus and his family at Bible studies & a home church and now I look at his reported life today and part of me weeps when thinking about it.
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God knows I would have handled this county corruption mess different
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...and maybe it can still be steered to a resolution that accomplishes the objective of the law and restores public trust in the process; my thought would have been a much more public
approach in some aspects of it:
(1) Extend the Board of Supervisor's meetings by one hour and require the DA to sit a non-voting representative of the DA on the Board
(2) Set a time specific citizens can attend, present evidence, make presentations
(3) Waive the 2 or 3 minute rule
(4) Require each public official, county employee and or vendor to agree in writing to explain publicly any money or gifts received/given apart from salaries and or contracted for services to any political candidate, committee and or 501C3 type organization at the request of any candidate, employee and or vendor
...its an idea
...its a start
...by the way Mikey, what about my offer of help on your proposed steps to
improve public trust...is that more rhetoric???
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