Jeff Rosen, a deputy District Attorney running against his boss, Santa Clara County DA Dolores Carr, said yesterday that she played favorites to help a major campaign supporter.
The case began when Ali Yahya Valdovinos, a Stanford University student, was charged with felony grand theft. Valdovinos is represented by James McManis, a major contributor to Carr’s campaign. Reports claim that McManis called Carr, who intervened personally, and Valdovinos later pleaded no-contest to petty theft instead.
Carr’s opponent, Jeff Rosen, challenged Carr, arguing that it signifies preferential treatment for affluent defendants. “The issue that this raises is does the kid from a poor family represented by a public defender get the same deal that this kid got because he was represented by a political contributor,” Rosen said.
Observers claim that this new revelation is likely to haunt Carr’s campaign for reelection this June.
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Pity that Mr. Rosen, upon encountering a political gift horse, so grossly misidentified the gift. If he really thinks it was the defendant’s affluence that swayed Ms. Carr into intervening then he has in his years as a prosecutor failed to notice that most wealthy defendants never got any help from his boss. I suspect, however, that Mr. Rosen hasn’t failed to notice anything; quite the contrary, I think he realizes, as do most candidates in this county, that in the absence of the race element, class warfare resonates best with the local herd, most of whom, if not born imbeciles, have attained that distinction courtesy of our public schools. Why else would Mr. Rosen, with a seemingly legitimate case in hand of quid pro quo misconduct by Ms. Carr, stoop to engaging in class warfare?
Political corruption can be purchased locally with any number of currencies and it has been my observation that the favored currency here comes in denominations colored pink, yellow, brown, and black. Stack up enough pinks and you can get a mayor to ignore the marriage laws. Gather a few yellows in front of city hall and a knife-wielding maniac becomes an innocent victim. March enough browns down the street and the council will defy federal authorities and the very idea of national autonomy. Encourage a mob of blacks to destroy a neighborhood and a judge will so lower himself in stature as to treat an inept policeman as if he were a serial killer.
Were it only that we lived in a society where money alone could pervert the law! Then we’d be safe from what we have now: mob rule of a most uncivilized variety. There will always be corruption, but at least when The Rich cheat the system they do so quietly, employing the discretion and efficiency that helped them become The Rich. The passing of an envelope, the misplacement of a file, the dismissal of a charge—who really ever noticed, other than a few nosy reporters? But when the mob cheats the system, well, it does so in a loud, rude, and destructive manner, one which is often just as dangerous when celebrating the concessions attained as it was when demanding them. Unlike The Rich, the mob gets its way by creating new victims, destroying property, and fostering fear (for as everyone knows, a successful mob only breeds more mobs).
For at least four decades the first question asked by a public official after an officer-involved shooting has been, “what race was the suspect?” The “good answer”—the only one that gives the involved officer a chance for an objective inquiry—is “a white guy.” I hope all you white folks appreciate the reality of what your mayors, councils, supervisors, and district attorneys have created with their corrupt embrace of diversity. In the political marketplace, the definition of justice—as well as the political value of the individual, is set not with black ink on the page of a law book but with color and gender in the darkest recesses of government institutions.
This dismal situation is what shortsighted people call progress (at least as long as they are in power). Mr. Rosen should be congratulated for understanding the new rules in the Age of Diversity, for his willingness to set aside the harsh facts of what his boss really did in favor of mooing something that might actually get the attention of the liberal herd.
finfan,
I realize we should not make fun of the mentally weak and ill, but your posts really are hilarious. That is quite a fantasy world you have built in your mind, and where you apparently live 24 hours a day. Keep up the posting. We all need some cheap laughs.
Old Guy Living with a Real Doll,
Inspired offering! Now I will do with it what I do when I encounter a dog’s inspired offering on the street, hold my nose and step over it.
I hope the public takes the time to look at this more closely. Rosen isn’t just benefiting from this “news;” he and his cronies had a hand in creating it. This story started with the San Jose Mercury News – authored by Tracy Kaplan, but contributed to by Scott Herhold. Herhold is a friend and poker buddy of Jim Towery, the husband of Karyn Sinunu. Sinunu, now an Assistant DA, ran an unsuccessful campaign for DA against Dolores Carr four years ago. She has friends at the Mercury News, with whom she collaborated in the “Tainted Trials Stolen Justice” articles for her own political gain. Neither she nor the Mercury News were happy about her losing the DA election. Sinunu now is a big supporter of Rosen. Former supporters of Sinunu – like former DA supervisor Jay Boyarsky – also are. Boyarsky,one of the laziest bums in the entire office, was a big supporter of Sinunu, under whom he hoped to get plum assignments within the office. Since Sinunu’s loss, he has been lying low. He also ran an unsuccessful race for judge a few years ago. Not only is he supporting Rosen, Rosen is using the same media consultant Boyarsky used in his campaign for judge. They, along with the Mercury News, are digging for dirt in a big way. Not because they want to do justice. Because they want to come back into power. Herhold, the Mercury News reporter who had a hand in breaking this story, ran a couple of pieces in August where he suggested Rosen (along with some others) should run for DA. Rosen’s bid for office didn’t start because of Herhold’s August piece. Herhold’s piece came about because of Rosen – and Sinunu’s – preexisting ambitions. And because Sinunu, through her husband, knows Herhold. This story is part of the same calculated plan, and there will be more like it.
When you connect the dots outside and inside the District Attorney’s office, don’t forget Assistant DA Marc Buller (also defeated by Carr three years ago) who has also been named as a player in the “Get Carr” effort.
He started his official deceptions 19 years ago with the Encinel Ten and just a few months ago attacked the good name of a nurse who blew the whistle on the suppression of videos of medical exams of rape victims.
Today’s Mercury News IA section includes a nasty anti-Carr piece by three Orcs, oops, three anti-Carr activists: Scott Herhold, Tracey Kaplan, and Mike Zapler. For the Mercury News editor to assign the piece today to these politically-tainted writers violates a whole bunch of journalistic ethics.
And, shades of the Gore campaign, the Orc triplets even gave costuming advice to Rosen—namely, how to look human, or at least healthy, in clothes.
If the Orc trio (Herhold, Kaplan, Zapler) and the Assistant DA trio (Buller, Sinunu, Boyarsky) hold firm, we may finally see the uncovering of hidden scandals not about Carr, but about the last three years of the DA Kennedy administration.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. The Merc has unclean hands and wants to run this election. And now Herhold is trying to publicize it as Democrat vs. Republican. If you’re a liberal, as this writer is, you care about victims, right? Why is nobody reporting on the fact that Mr. Rosen dismissed a murder case against homicidal maniac Jason Cai, who then went out and killed yet another victim?
“And now Herhold is trying to publicize it as Democrat vs. Republican.” He is also using victims of violent crime to help his candidate win.
I am not a human being, I am a lawyer.