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iePolitics: The BOS just doesn’t get it

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On Friday I attempted to pull up the FPPC Form 700 on Dr. Dev GnanaDev, medical director at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC).  I was astonished to find that it still isn’t available online, assuming there is one at all.  This is after over a year of excuses as to why the Board of Supervisors is covering for him, giving him a reduced filing requirement so that he can hide his real property near ARMC, etc.  This is just one example of why the Pay Reduction Act is needed.

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Examiner.com: First Hispanic woman elected chairman in county history

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Supervisor Josie Gonzales

The most heated dispute over chairmanship in decades resulted in members of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors electing the first-ever Hispanic woman to serve as chairman of the board.  San Bernardino County, at almost 21,000 square miles, is the largest county in the contiguous United States.  Gonzales is the only Latina to ever serve on the board.

On Tuesday, Supervisor Josie Gonzales, who represents Colton, Bloomington, Muscoy, and Rialto, as well as parts of the cities of San Bernardino and Fontana, won the top spot in a 3-2 split vote with Supervisors Neil Derry and Brad Mitzelfelt voting against her appointment.  Speculation had been surfacing for months as to whether Gonzales would be allowed to be elevated to the position.  She has served as vice chairman for the past two years and has been the subject of a great deal of criticism by other board members and the public alike.

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