Press Censorship--it ain't just happening courtesy of the San Bernardino County Sun, Daily Press and Desert Dispatch!!

A great article on why we need something OTHER than our current print and studio TV/cable TV media. Check out what we were not told or if told, grossly under-reported!!!; For example, in a recent piece in the San Bernardino Sun and Desert Dispatch, it was curiously omitted that Nursery Products, LLC (who wants to dump sludge on a patch of private land in the middle of public lands to ostensibly create a type of compost for which there is no market)had been slapped with a cease and desist order by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management AFTER a recent Superior Court CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) hearing for illegally tearing up public lands. All the articles "covered" (two different papers, two different ownerships) was that the local court had clear ahurdle for Nursery Products, ignoring the bigger problem; sad but ongoing local example of trying to advocate for a dumper!
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/mass_media/censored/press_censorship_11

The Dismissal of Irwin's charges due to Mike Ramos' Ineptness or his Plan??

Joe Nelson: [in response to your article @ http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_16085205] I told you, I told you, I told you, when you did not want to hear during the campaign [and as I recall Frank Guzman told you as well]-- Mike Ramos may have either stalled prosecutions in his public integrity unit so his buds' criminal liability under state statutes would vanish for statute of limitations reasons (and his prosecution was just window dressing, campaign fodder and or a way to remind his competition within the party who is boss until the cases got tossed) or is he just a terrible DA for anything except gangbanger prosecutions (oh wait a second, his conviction rate is 30% under what the typical major County DA department does). You (Joe Nelson), Joe Baca, Sr. & Jerry Lewis helped re-elect him. So who is watching the hen house? Jerry Brown's attentions have been turned to the City of Bell it seems.
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Blogger Bob's comments: Is Irwin's case really coming down to undisclosed gifts or services on a FPPC 700 form and related comments? If so, don't we have some serious problems with Mike Ramos who did not disclose a five figure payment to his wife? and then signed a disclosure form under penalty of perjury not disclosing that payment? Didn't Brad Mitzelfelt's mis-report the source of some of his campaign contributions and sign an FPPC 460 form under penalty of perjury when he ran for election (after being appointed by the BOS)? Is Irwin being hammered because he lobbied for a deal a lot of other people seemed in love with? How is that different from certain employees of the BOS sheparding plans through the approval process and planning commission for a developer bud--in fact don't some of those staffers have real estate licenses? Do we have the smell of selective prosecution in the air yet?

Mike Ramos' threats, intimidation and bias-Chapter VI

The Sun put its article announcing my candidacy in the sports section--everyone else got the typical placement. When someone runs for office because they believe they can make a difference, it's not a game, unless I guess you are Joe Nelson and the Sun.

By the way, did you see hachet job by Ramos' campaign consultant carried by the Sun in the article on March 12th: "Ellis said Stout's allegations are like the pot calling the kettle black, alluding to a 2002 controversy Stout had been ensnared in. Stout and two of his top lieutenants were accused of leaking confidential information related to an investigation into former Supervisor Jerry Eaves to Ed Scott, Eaves' political opponent in the 2000 election. Transcripts of conversations between Scott and two of Stout's top managers were made public in 2002, when Stout was running against Ramos for District Attorney. Stout withdrew from the race after Ramos outperformed him in the primary. Dennis Stout made the right decision for his family and his career not to run against Mike Ramos, Ellis said"--First, is Ramos' campaign manager admitting his boss is guilty of the same type of wrongdoing (BINGO--need to pin that one down Joe, rather than let Ellis babble); Second, I guess I can expect my run against Ramos will trigger a smear campaign like what Stout experienced--not an unlikely outcome when Ellis and Ramos have Joe Nelson of the Sun and the public employee union in their back pocket. Who would have thought organized labor could countenance such intimidation and in-you-face bias. Stout, who isn't running and has no bone in this fight stated he couldn't "threaten the contributors of my opponents with criminal investigations" or "arrest people who are presumed to be innocent under our laws." That Stout's fear of Ramos' net may not be imagined is the piece to investigate. Serve the public Joe. Investigate the dude laying down the threats!! Bob Conaway