MORPHEUS WRITES -

For an excellent read I recommend The Appeal by John Grisham- 2008
It has to do with buying a political office/ judge for fun and profit. Its fiction but probably understated in these times. Balance your life with other things than playing on the computer. Read books.

Here’s my short list of the questionable local events that I have concerns about.

The City of Victorville and its impending implosion/bankruptcy. This will effect all of the High Desert Communities and the County in a VERY BAD way. This means You, if you live in the area. This will kill off the High Desert economy like toxic assets does a bank. The entire High Desert will become business poison because of Victorville’s stupidity and greed. Public safety and services in Victorville will diminish to the lowest levels as the employees flee to safer/ more secure jobs and retirements. Crime will increase accordingly and people will move away from the area -if possible. Housing prices will drop even lower than they are now, and no one will be buying them. And this is the good news part of this story! It’s not a matter of if, it’s when. Get out now if you can. It’s going to get ugly.

The Daily Press recently ran a pathetic fluff piece on poor Billy Postmus going into rehab for the third time. The problem I have with this latest version are the lies told about the first two times he was in rehab (while in office) that these same guys were denying. Mitzelfelt and Lehrer (and Postmus himself) claimed he was burying his grandmother or on some vacation or no one knew where he was while he was really in rehab in Washington State or in Lucerne Valley or some other place. So now that he’s been arrested and has resigned from office every one is supposed to believe this latest sob story. What happened during the 3 month paid leave of absence? Was that rehab too? Or was Bill burying some other relative? The really funny part of this story was the source of it, Ted Lehrer . Lehrer now claims to be - get this- a private media liaison for Postmus. How does that work? An out of work meth head has his own private media liaison? Lehrer does not work for the county any more so I guess he had to take what work was available. I wonder how much this new Postmus “liaison” job pays? The best line in the story was Lehrer’s claim that,” even his political opponents have encouraged him to beat this addiction and get back to better health.” Really? Who are these political opponents who have nothing but good wishes for our drug addicted ex-assessor? And all of this coming from his pathological lying self appointed spokesperson? If all you have done is lie while you were getting paid by the county to protect Postmus, why would anyone believe you now? I know I don’t. Postmus should be in jail for his crimes, at least we would know where he is while getting off the meth.

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors all need to be drug tested by someone outside of the County because they have to be high to come up with ideas like this. Neil Derry recently stated that he would staff the County ethics commission with 8 members. Are you ready for this impartial- not biased group? Here’s Neil’s plan. All 5 supervisors would get to pick their own members, the DA and Sheriff would get to pick their own members and there would be 1 member from an independent group. So 7 out of 8 members would be picked by the people that are supposed to be getting looked at for ethics violations. I can see that this commission will get a lot done and restore our faith in the County.

And last on the list is the John Hueston investigation into the Assessors office. Just like the Gumport investigation, my guess is the County will delay and stall as long as possible to let the guilty escape justice.

The county came under criticism in 2005 for delaying the release of a report by a private attorney hired to look into the county's purchase of a private jail in Adelanto and the purchase of former county land by a supervisor's top aide.

Attorney Leonard Gumport's investigation into both matters was completed in fall 2005 but supervisors did not release the report until August 2006.

From what I heard, Hueston found out more in the 2 months he investigated than the DA has in the last 2 years. But that shouldn’t surprise anyone, that Ramos - The Look the Other Way DA- hasn’t filed any charges and continues to claim that he is still investigating years later. Barney Fife and Otis would have closed this case years ago. Inspector Clouseau would have solved the crime long ago. But this is San Bernardino County! The most incompetent government that money can buy!

Enough for now. For some relief, be sure to vote against all of the State propositions that the crooks have on the ballot on May 19th. Just Vote NO!