He thinks it's funny: Do you DHS, Jerry Brown, CMS, DA?

Jerry Brown: it's never too late...

KVHD board meeting, June 2009:

Feeling safe and secure he will never have to face his responsibility for the disasters/failures/crimes of the Kern Valley Healthcare District, the district's employees and patients have been enduring for the last two plus years, board member, Brad Armstrong, reacted when I told him it was sick he was still a free man while a doctor and pharmacist pay his toll.

He laughed and smirked.

I asked him, "Do you think that's funny?"

I'm sure Dr. Pormir isn't laughing and neither are the families of the patients in the skilled nursing facility, or the former employees scapegoated and known always as "disgruntled."

While the perpetrators of the disasters sit at our KVHD board table each month, Armstrong, Bob Jamison and Chet Beedle, CFO, without conscience or an understanding of how many lives have been altered because of them. I'm going to make sure they know what their crimes have reaped.

Again, I repeat as I have written in personal correspondence with many of our elected officials, you let the leaders go, to continue the same indifference to laws and ethics while you took the "worker bees."

You want to kill the swarm you go after the queen and her mates. (Don't forget, former CEO of KVHD, Pam Ott, now infesting Sierra King District in Reedly, CA: Oh yeah, she's a witness for the state.)

Apparently the Department of Justice doesn't scare our Mr. Armstrong, I believe he thinks he is untouchable. He should probably take heed there are those out there that "know" what he did.

Bob Jamison has laughed off investigations crowing from his sqawk box at QAB media about the impotence of government. So, now he faces a new hurdle at the next board meeting and every meeting thereafter: having to listen to his own emails being read onto the hospital record.

And Chet Beedle with his funny abacus will never admit to the short staffing, the personal attacks on employees, the grandiose contracts, the short sighted bond refinance, so we are just going to have to help him out with the truth.

But once the state investigators looked away from KVHD, the element just reassembled, added new members, burrowed back in, becoming even more fearless.

At a special board meeting in March, I was asked to get a report for a TV station. When I entered the board room, the board counsel was giving me the synopsis over the phone, when Brad Armstrong stepped in front of me, clicked off the phone as the attorney was in mid sentence, and told me, "meeting adjourned." (Worthy to note, the chairman is the only one to say, meeting adjourned. He's not the chairman. I guess he's still living in the middle chair of his mind.)

I protested that I had not gotten the report. While I was protesting the cameraman from the TV station was getting hit with sprinklers as he tried to film in front of the hospital.

We went up to the bench at the entrance of the facility to do the interview, and suddenly, the sprinklers from the tree, sprayed us. We laughed and I explained to the startled cameraman that it was just the nonsense of stupid people. (He fixed the sprinkler by the way. Chet you owe him five bucks. Or maybe you would prefer he be your sprinkler consultant and you could contract for say, half a million?)

The healthcare district spent $60,000 on a public relations firm to try and change its damaged image.

They then really helped their marred image by turning the sprinklers on a cameraman from KGET, Channel 17 news, out of Bakersfield last March.

Opinion #7-13 Laura Hart:

Mr. Attorney General, if the government cannot serve the type of justice which produces healing by removing the malignant force, then it would be best to do nothing at all. You removed some healthy tissue but left most of the tumors behind. Not a good prognosis.

By ignoring the leaders in your indictments, much like leaving ruthless leaders from authoritarian regimes in power, you let them continue the same actions but with impunity.

Unfortunately, the message the state sent to the Kern Valley was that we are only a provocative headline for you sir and your public relations staff who are working on your next political campaign.

Dr. Pormir chided me two years ago that, "you, Laura, know nothing about politics."

Given our respective situations, related to the political machine, I'd say we're becoming frickin' experts.