Part three: Bob Jamison and QAB/sexual harassment too?/court date with the media Feb. 3

The never-ending story:

As if the Kern Valley Healthcare District story with the elder abuse, the bullying of employees and even board members, the use of small town media to cover some bad deeds indeed, I have brought another element to light and that is sexual harassment.

As I've described to you over the course of more than a year of writing this blog, that it would all come down to the fact that I've collected information and evidence, some of which is uncomfortable, yet the truth.

Nobody was comfortable in March of 2007 when I grabbed my bugle and began to play revievelle to a sleepy community unwilling to be awakened by matters such as public safety issues within the publicly run healthcare district, hospital which may have hastened the passing of residents of the nursing center.

At the time I began to bring in evidence and tell the story which continued and still continues to this day, about the mismanagement leading to, at the very least, mistreatment of people and more sickening, the weak, the infirm, the eldery, which we have now established DID occur under our noses, with the help of many, in our community and in our hospital.

The fight in early 2007 was the fact that there was a problem and who and what was causing it, was only in question. Very few would believe this could happen.

Because of certain circumstances and let's say it, priorities, the media in our valley put out confusing messages, one hoping to hold on to it's advertising, afraid to believe it was not as bad as it seemed; the other, willing to completely offer it's media services to a "resigning" CEO, who would be the first administrator out the door as the nursing center was approached being a safety hazard the state would have to close down.

Now, after the Department of Justice came through, a little late, but they at least showed up, which cannot be said for other agencies, such as the Grand Jury, who had early access to evidence which could have been seized in 2007, rather than a year later after the shredder was paid off.

And I don't know what the story is with the Department of Public Health, but several of us had an appointment to peruse public records regarding the hospital nursing center investigation, (the records are most likely in the hands of the state for their "potential" criminal trial) last April 2nd, and then were actually avoided for a full year.

Wow, the government, when they want to get you off their back, (because I'm just a small fly, a gadfly, and they know there is nothing I personally can do, except what I have been doing: telling the truth and following it up with evidence) they just laugh at you and ignore you.

I'm really a nothing in the big scheme of things. But because I don't believe any of us should be walking around thinking we are victims, acting as if we are victims thus ignoring the potential to act and solve problems: I just keep going.

We have reached another level to this now, where I am going to utilize our court system, part of the greater justice system: Small Claims court.

What tools do I have to use? Not many, my friends, but I will use them all until this is settled.

And because I said last year that I believed strongly that both the Kern Valley Sun Newspaper and more overtly, QAB media, owners of four radio channels, and access to the web and at one time, using the affiliate ABC radio news at the end of blogs authored by Bob Jamison, meant to attack maliciously without supportive information.

But even more sinister, has been the use of the station all the way up to the election, when Mr. Jamison, with a straight face, used his radio station to campaign for himself for board of directors at the hospital.

That particular program caused my phone to ring, as Jamison got off some personal attacks against the other candidates. Which I guess, if you don't embarass easily, is legal, but certainly an unwelcome example of small town politics.

I thank God the part of the scenario where the truth was just in our imaginations, there was no crime taking place, we didn't really get emails saying those things, nobody lied, and on and on.

Now it's the aftermath, however, we need to bring ourselves to that understanding so we can begin the clean up.

And I'm afraid what we have now, is more about how it happened, a disagreement between many people about how this poisonous situation took place.

I have put in front of you evidence which I believe supports a true conspiracy of top administrators, board members, the local media, and dare I say it, but an egregious example of the inefficiency of the many government agencies.

Next week the media in small claims court

Subject: sexual harassment

As I have been gathering all my evidence together to bring with me to court next week, and funny enough, the February 3rd board meeting date as well,

I am pleased to have my own opportunity to tell my story and show my evidence, and stand up for what I believe in, even if it is only in the smallest court we have.

Other people are out there punching it out, pointing guns at others, maybe even making threats, enjoying some slanderous or salamanderous moments at the expense of others, but I prefer to use truth and the avenues open to the average person (sans the attorneys) to do my work.

And as I've told everyone who has helped with this fight, this has never been about me, it is about all of us, and some of us like to talk the talk, while others can walk the walk.

So here's another subject that needs to be addressed for every young woman or man who has felt oppressive sexual advances connected to non-sexual situations such as a job.

As I will address in court next Wed. Feb. 3 at 3 pm in the Lake Isabella courthouse, prior to Mr. Jamison becoming overtly sexual in our conversations regarding my request to work with the radio station, as we had already set up situations where I called into the talk show Jamison, things were fine.

However, the more I was interested in the idea of doing a radio show, the more he was interested in meeting me for lunch or rambling on about strange, then eventually sexual things in our conversations.

This is a classical harassment set up, as opposed to just some sexual jokes or remarks.

Each time I had an idea about the show, which is what I was put through creating the show and ideas: it became an invitation or a phone call.

Eventually, I knew that there was no way the situation would work out, as Mr. Jamison wanted more than a side kick for his talk show.

But then there is the issue too that Jamison clouded the airwaves for months regarding the allegations of elder abuse, brown act violations, slander and defamation, conflict of interest, and I guess, I'm throwing it in there, sexual harassment to set off the whole ugly story.

I think after this is over, in Superior court and even small claims court, we will hopefully have learned how to be the example, walk the walk, and not be afraid to say that some is "WRONG" very, very wrong.

The media attacked my name and reputation in a malacious manner, but they also gave the community an example that the media cannot be counted on to take on serious and even grave situations such as what has occurred here in this valley. And nothing has changed in that regard.

The community: They call me about the high school, college community services, the rural health clinic, the water pollution, the racism, need for more classes at the college, the situations with their children...because they know I care and won't look the other way.

I can't get to everything, but I'm here watching...You can count on it.

Jamison E-mail:

From: Bob Jamison >

To: Laura Hart >

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006

14:51:09 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Laura,

Haven't heard anything else. At this point I do not intend to persue the matter further, as I think I got my point across to the subject agency on air.

As far as what we talked about after the show, I will tell you that like many people in the entertainment industry, I have a vivid imagination. In addition to listening to your words while we were on air, I was also keenly aware of the direction you seemed to want to go, but would not. We both have strong personalities and I can invision any number of situations that could result from two such people doing anything together. The result could be dynamic, exciting... the adjectives are nearly endless. It could also easily spin out of control.

Toward the latter, I must learn to stop imagining what people are waring when I am talking to them via phone from their home. I'm guessing that my vision of you setting in a chair in you pajamas drinking a glass of soy juice was more than likely inaccurate.

That's one of the things I love about radio, there is always enough room left for the imagination. TV, on the other hand, leaves no room for that.

Excuse me, I think I just inhaled my tie. Talk to you later.
Bob.

Bob Jamison and QAB part ll: equal time Mr. Bohn/Senator Ashburn tried to help/

Pam Ott, according to QAB..."nothing left to loose"

It was May of 2007, as Mr. Bob Jamison, radio talk show host and Kern Valley Healthcare District board member, took to his blog then went to the airwaves to seemingly protect the former CEO, Pamela Ott, now officially charged in the elder abuse case, brought about the state of California, Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Medical fraud and elder abuse.

Ott resigned in early May 2007, (see post: Oh, those prophetic words), and Jamison began utilizing the media he worked for to protect her reputation and to deliver the news that the "news" was untrue.

We now know the news was true, there were serious problems in the skilled nursing facility and the hospital. And these problems became more serious as the hospital and some zealous board members, began to try and twist the news, bury the past, hide the errors, without any concern for the public or the ethical implications of a board member using the radio for his own political purposes.

However, the message that there were serious problems, possibly a public safety issue, was being battled by two media outlets and one freelance reporter. While the Kern Valley Sun Newspaper opted to keep their advertising in April of 2007 with the hospital, which meant they would just quietly write around the problems; QAB media allowed a full on attack on those who disagreed or criticized anything done by the hospital administration.

Jamsion announces interveiw with Ott...the victim

QAB, the company which owns the radio stations, allowed Mr. Jamison to bring Pamela Ott on his Friday, talk show, and allowed her an hour of time to tell her side of the story. (see post: Ott taped interview and Here's your witness Jerry Brown) This blog authored by Jamison, preceeded the radio show...

As the Valley waits with baited breath, or yawns bored to tears, waiting to see what dastardly deed the Sun will uncover next within the Kern Valley Healthcare District, this weeks Talk Show may shed some light on whatever is happening.
While the freelance reporter, which the Sun is suddenly distancing themselves from, continues to dig through years and years of Healthcare District public records, perhaps searching for the elusive "smoking gun", the stories keep being pumped out by the Sun, devoid of objectivity and, in my opinion, misleading.
I guess the days of journalistic integrity and readers assuming "it must be true, I read it in the newspaper" are long gone.

So. where do we turn to for the truth? Disgruntled employees?, Politically motivated board members?, Someone who posts messages on a community internet forum urging hospital employees to abandon their patients, go out on "stress leave" and illegally file false workman's comp claims?

How about the only person with nothing left to loose, no reason left to worry about political correctness or what the foul mouthed freelance reporter writes about her?
Outgoing Kern Valley Healthcare District CEO, Pamela Ott, will be on the Talk Show this Friday morning at 9am for the full hour.
Bob Jamison The Talk Show
Send E-mail to The Talk Show

There were many of us scrambling to find a way to respond to this skewed radio show, but there were no real outlets here in the valley who weren't connected to the largest employer, the kern valley healthcare District.

In an effort to try and make this a more balanced broadcast, we wrote in desperation to the owner of the station and ambulance company, Anthony Bohn, hoping that he would be more rational about Mr. Jamison's plans.

However, that would not be the case, and Bohn, maybe because of Jamison's position on the board, or rumors that Bohn has no other engineer without Jamison, or maybe because it would get some ratings, the interview went ahead, and the transcript is on this blog for all to read. (Is QAB really proud of this interview with Ott? Do they have any idea that they allowed only a criminally charged CEO to speak and forgot about the listeners, the truth, and the best interests of the valley?)

But we tried several times to summon the owner to do the right thing and allow other information added to the one sided show. Here is the second communication which went through the blog site for the show:

Name: Laura Hart E-mail Address: hartofthekrv@msn.com City: Weldon, California
Comments:
Mr. Bohn; Here is the most recent blog of Mr. Jamison which I spoke of in a previous email.
I would like to ask the station the opportunity to provide equal time in regards to the Dam Talk show with Pamela Ott scheduled for this week. If you would please let me know if this is possible; and also let me again know what your policy is on this blog site.
I would be happy to supply you with information regarding this current situation and the likely cause of Mr. Jamison’s current need to strike out at the world in a rather incoherent and always misspelled way. Please email me or call me 378-3637. Laura Hart

We were basically laughed at as the power of the media was there's to do with what they wanted.

I find it hard to believe that Mr. Jamison is hypocritical enough to complain about the KVHD under fire! blog. LOL

Considering Mr. Jamison's blogging had absolutely no information, paperwork, evidence, only slanderous and defamatory blurbs and threats of lawsuits, I have a difficult time falling for his newly found, "victim role."

That is quite different from what is up on this site. As with the emails I am showing you now, and explaining the reasoning and rationale behind the circumstances which have occurred here in the valley which could quite honestly have lead to the closure of the only health services for this community.

And guess what? It still might.

Big DEBT, little SUPPORT

One more email for Senator Ashburn, as Jamison writes to me to convince me that the Senator who went to the state in an effort to help this hospital out from under a "super size me" Cal Mtg., OSHPD, KVHD board of directors, bond/insurance deal that went arry in 1986.

Oh, but there was more money and insurance for those monies, where that came from. 13 million, not enough: just throw in another 9 million in the cart and then they can finish the building, including the nursing center.

What? They couldn't finish the projects which are designed to pay for the bonds and expenses. What will they do? (where's the crystal ball?)

It was a call for bankruptcy
let's call it what it really is and was, a 40 plus million dollar debt from the office of Cal Mtg., a money maker inside of the Office of Statewide healthcare Planning and Development.

Yes, it's true, in 1999, Ashburn was contacted by the administrator as well as others concerned as to the debt that the hospital took on, and the failure to use that money in a way that it would be paid off in a timely manner, like before they bankrupt or get sued.

Ashburn did try to unite the people involved to bring about some relief for a hospital which made horrible financial decisions dating back to the mid 1980's, which I can probably say with some assurance, that those mistakes lead directly to the financial fiasco which cut staff to a minimum in the early 2000's, and residents of the nursing center paid the ultimate price.

But Jamison, goes about telling me about Ashburn, who is retiring from his political life, but once was quite interested in making sure the Kern Valley Healthcare District survived it's "mistakes in judgment," was in error even thinking about a bankruptcy option or even supporting a "bail out."

ASHBURN According to Bob Jamison

Hi Laura,

Thank you for calling into the program Friday morning. Hopefully your hard work will save someone from being suckered by these scam artists.
(had to break in here for an aside: which scam artists Mr. jamison, the one's you like and defend on your radio programs I forget?)
I was thinking about Senator Ashburn’s response to your questions. Throughout most of Ashburn’s life he has been on the extreme right of the political spectrum, and there has always been friction between himself and the more moderate wing of the Republican Party, especially Congressman Bill Thomas. In fact Ashburn has always believed that he should be Thomas’ replacement when he retired. The Republican Party has never giving Ashburn much in the way of support.

Remember I mentioned the custom Senate District that was created for him? His seat on the reapportionment committee was approved by the Democratic chair of the committee. Just prior to that Ashburn divorced, and ever since has acted differently to most who have known him. I may be wrong, but I’m guessing he has “unofficially” switched party’s. It sounds like the Democrats may be treating him a lot better than the Republicans.

Question is… why would an extreme right wing politician take such a bold step? Answer: A politician is all Ashburn has ever been. He’s never held another job. He went from Kern County Young Republican, to Supervisor, to undistinguished term limited Assemblyman, and was on his way to running for County assessor or something, which would effectively end his political future. He may have felt desperate enough to switch.

You might think I enjoy politics, as much as I talk about it, but actually I find the subject rather boring. I would much rather talk about something else.

Up Next: A retrospective on getting a job with QAB.
The evidence wasn't there for me yet, and I didn't know exactly what kind of people I was dealing with at the hospital, and I stepped into a pile of it in 2006, and found out the ugly way.
I had an interest in working with Mr. Jamison on the radio as I had become a regular caller, with local "scam" alerts (not very good at that was I?) on the talk show.
However, in our conversations about the show and my potential job, things began to get "twisted."

It will be the first time I've had to actually consider using a rating system, but I would prefer nobody under 18 read the blogs and emails coming up in the next story.

Here's an email sample from Jamison as to why I will be doing this:

Hi Laura,

Yesterday I saw an ad on TV for what appeared to be a porn website, and it reminded me, I haven't heard from Laura lately. So how was your Christmas & New Year? I didn't get what I wanted, but thats okay, its kind of like sex... the longer you have to wait, the better it is... Is that right? Its been so Iong I forget.
Understand now?

ABC radio news: They say they didn't know what KVHD board member, Bob Jamison, was doing...now they do

Dismantling the "tower of power"
After years of reporting Kern Valley Healthcare District's board member, and our valley's only radio station, QAB, DJ and talk show host, Bob Jamison  to several agencies including the FCC (federal communications commission), for his repeated attempts to use the radio station to cover the public safety problems at the hospital.

But his use of the airwaves and being the only true "local radio outlet" made him powerful and dangerous as he was allowed to use the airwaves for his election campaign, his defamation of local citizens, and to lie about a public safety, health, issues.

Jamison didn't stop there as we know, he attacked all of us who knew the truth and disagreed with him.

He slandered employees of the hospital on the air. (Hard to believe, but true)

He attacked good people in the community who were trying to help. (one person happened to be "woman of the year.")

But he was viscious to the other board members he disagreed with, Robert and Kathryn Knight who were called many things, and posted defamatory blogs on his website about them, and then would pull the blog down in a "peekaboo" manner to avoid detection. (I'm not making this up, it's all true and I can prove it)

He allowed the phony balogney, Ott, to use an hour of air time to overtly lie to the community about the deaths and dangerous conditions occurring in the nursing center at the hospital. That was not right, Jerry Brown, Attorney General, who almost made the same mistake in trusting Ott.

The attorney general has not even realized that obstruction like Jamison did on the radio, kept this case and witnesses from coming forward. So, how are you going to help us with this problem Jerry Brown? (Don't be afraid of Jamison just because he's a republican; Jerry you're smarter than he is, we need your help in closing down that pipeline of slander and deceit.)

And his favorite target, I guess because I'm the scariest of them all, is me.

He used the station to attack me. He apparently thinks this behavior is okay. I am not giving up until this is over and the outlet is either closed down out of disgrace or they lose their license for unethical behavior.

But two years later, when I finally got around to putting up the blog, he wasn't so pleased. He can dish it out, but cannot take it.

He likes to tell others that the emails he sent me early on when he acted as friend and potential employer (we will get into the sexual harassment aspect of this as well in another post soon. Some will be at the meeting tonight) are made up or tampered with.

I assure you the only reason I still have MSN as my internet provider is that they can verify that I did nothing to these emails and they indeed did eminate from the Jamison IP address. We have them backed up of course, but the carrier is a better witness.

He doesn't get it, he thinks the power is his and the radio station will do his bidding...

Mr. Jamison I'm sure doesn't realize that we have been taping his talk shows for some time now, and plan on giving these tapes over to the only people who seem to care that a radio DJ slandered and dashed us all for the sake of his cover up: ABC radio news.

After years of calling government agencies to help stop the insanity here in the Kern River Valley, we were laughed at by Jamison and those at QAB who would not listen when we asked repeatedly that Mr. Jamison stop his private use of the radio airwaves.

Nobody cared, the owner Anthony Bohn, didn't care. And the fact is he told someone that the reason Jamison is still with the station is that he is the only one who knows how to do the engineering. (sad excuse I would say for a media outlet which could help it's community and not lie to it. That's why we are going to court next month. I want to hear them answer to this.)

ABC radio news we tried to tell you too

I spoke with ABC radio news today and told them that we have a problem with one of your ABC news affiliates here in our hidden valley ranch dressing (sorry I'm hungry) where information is scarce and one radio station owns the airwaves.

I explained that we have been recording the infamous Bob Jamison and have all his blogs he put up on the station's website which reflects on the ABC radio news name.

They now know there is a problem and I am in the midst of supplying them with all the evidence of what one man can do with his "tower of power" to a community. None of it good.

We can only hope the days of the reign of power by these small minded folks from the media will end, and a new way of reporting and journalism will emerge because of it.

But no more Mr. Jamison, no more. See you tonight with your own emails.

Board meeting 5:30 pm in the hospital cafeteria.