Mike Richman was a GOP blogger, and a partisan hack, now he is busted!
Surprise, surprise. More Republican corruption. “Mike Richman, a top aide to Board of Equalization member Michelle Steel and the target of a San Bernardino County lawsuit alleging that he and others engaged in political work on government time, has resigned,” according to the Riverside Press Enterprise.
Steel is married to Shawn Steel, the former Chairman of the California Republican Party. He has been trying to turn her into the next big thing for years. It looks like the wheels are falling off their little red wagon now!
“Richman, a political consultant, oversaw Steel’s Republican primary campaign in 2006. He became Steel’s chief of staff Nov. 1 and earned $122,424 a year.”
Why would some political hack be qualified to serve as a Chief of Staff for a member of the Board of Equalization?
I found this information about Richman over at the awful Republican blog, the Flash Report, where, of course, Richman was a blogger:
San Bernardino Republican Party members must be ecstatic over the news that JohnsonClark Associates Political Director Mike Richman will be joining the county’s central committee as its new Executive Director. Richman will serve part time in this position, while also beginning his own consulting firm serving political and public affairs clients.
Many of you know Mike Richman from the outstanding work he did in 2006, when he, in his role with JohnsonClark, managed Michelle Steel’s successful Board of Equalization primary campaign and then served as Deputy Campaign Manager for Steve Poizner’s bid for State Insurance Commissioner, which Poizner ultimately won. He also was heavily involved in the election of Anthony Adams, who is the Assemblyman from the High Desert, and one of this website’s State Capitol bloggers.
The San Bernardino County Republican Party Executive Director position has traditionally served as a launching pad for some of today’s most influential Republican policymakers, such as retired State Senate Republican leader Jim Brulte. As the Party’s new Executive Director, Richman will replace San Bernardino County FlashReport correspondent Adam Aleman, who is leaving the post after guiding the Party’s central committee through three statewide election cycles. Aleman is serving as a lead assistant to County Assessor Bill Postmus. (Fear not, Adam will continue to blog for us!)
Too funny! Richman replaced Adam Aleman as Executive Director of the San Bernardino GOP, and sure enough Aleman got busted last year! And Aleman’s boss, Bill Postmus, ended up resigning as San Bernardino Assessor after we all found out about his drug use and other peccadilloes.
Aleman in fact got busted for blogging about Postmus while on the clock at the Assessor’s office, “Adam Aleman, former assistant assessor under Postmus, was San Bernardino County editor for RedCounty.com. The Hueston Report, a county ordered investigation of Postmus and his associates released Tuesday, accuses Aleman of using county money to purchase technology for the Web site and paying county employees to write for the site and spend time “e-mail blasting,” according to the San Bernardino Sun.
You have to love those red-faced clowns in San Bernardino. What a bunch of corrupt hacks! So nice to see them all getting dragged off in chains…
hey art do the dems do anything wrong . this makes about what your 215th anti republican story this week .
#1,
You didn’t see my Loretta Sanchez story this week? Or any of my Pulido stories?
art they are not of the same . the whole world knows you have been anti pulido for years now . sanchez story is about her love life who last time i looked she was single so who cares who she goes out with i wished you more cover it with more ballance .
Does anyone know what happened to Michael “Mike” Richman of MPR Strategies, the up and coming GOP political consultant? Last I heard he was being sued, but I can’t find anything current.
Congressman’s Son May Face Molestation Charges
October 1, 2012, Diamond Bar, CA. A criminal trial is scheduled to commence during the first week of October. The victims are Congressman Gary Miller, his spouse, Cathy and their three grandchildren. The accused are Jennifer Lopez DeJongh, mother of the three grandchildren, and her spouse, George DeJongh, stepfather of those children. Both are being accused of Child Custody Deprivation of the three grandchildren although neither the Congressman nor his spouse had any custodial rights. In fact, court documents show that Jennifer Lopez DeJongh and Brian Miller (the Congressman’s son) had joint legal custody of the Congressman’s grandchildren. The Court had granted Jennifer Lopez DeJongh full physical custody.
The alleged crime revolves around Jennifer Lopez DeJongh’s refusal to deliver her three children to the home of the Congressman for a visit for the purpose of reunification with the father, Brian Miller.
The father has been accused of the sexual molestation of his three sons and has a long history of violence. Besides a Restraining Order for assaulting Jennifer Lopez DeJongh, he was convicted in Orange County for child endangerment and assault.
Even though Brian Miller is the father of the three children, the deputy district attorney, Whelma Llanos, is not calling him as a witness nor is she calling the three children who are victims to testify.
Here are some highlights of the possible testimony at trial:
• A respected therapist will testify that he reported to the Department of Child Protective Services that the father, Brian Miller, sexually molested his three sons, Brian Christopher, Christian and Evan.
• A doctor, who specializes in clinical psychology, will testify that she conducted a psychosexual analysis of Brian Miller and found, among other things, that Brian Miller exhibits deviant sexual behavior toward children the same age as his children.
• A grammar school principal will testify that one of the boys exposed his genitals during a Show and Tell exercise to explain what the boy’s father did to him.
• The three boys will testify for the defense. They have already been deposed and have expressed their desire to tell the court, in detail, about their father sexually molesting them. Their testimony should be sufficient to have their father arrested and charged.
• Although the defense is calling Brian Miller as a witness, he may assert his right under the 5th Amendment of self-incrimination. However, in other court documents, Brian Miller, the biological father, admitted to many issues including the forcing of the boys to sleep nude, in their bed, with him while he, himself was also nude.
The jury trial is to be held at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, 210 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA. Case Number BA332537.