Let’s Not Forget Doolittle’s Duplicity in the Sierra College Debacle

People like Doolittle are always saying let’s not look to the past but let’s get on with the future. What they mean is do not try to hold me accountable for my past behavior because looking at my past with only reflect negatively on me. One look at the past will revivify another example of Doolittle’s unethical and his self-serving behavior.

Rex Bloomfield, the highly respected former Placer County Supervisor, wrote, “Ten years ago John Doolittle asked Sierra College President Ramirez for his assistance in making a campaign video on the Sierra College campus. Ramirez expressed concern to Congressman Doolittle that since the congressman was not a strong supporter of public education, it might be inappropriate to use the college for his political campaigns. Rameriz was acting ethically, Doolittle was not.

Doolittle never made that video, nor did he forget Ramirez’s forthrightness. The implication is that Doolittle, known to hold a grudge, figured prominently in the election of four Sierra College board members who dumped Ramirez’s for unsubstantiated allegations at a cost to the taxpayers of about $2,000,000. It boggles the mind to speculate that Doolittle could be so petty. Or does it? Let’s look at some facts.

Doolittle wrote a letter to the editor denying Bloomfield’s implication saying “in so far as I know, such a request was never made” -- hardly a forthright denial.

Doolittle received the largest fine ever levied at the time for campaign irregularities in his first election, has been charged like his discredited cohort Tom Delay of “…holding fundraising events in luxury sports boxes leased largely with the money of Indian gaming tribes” although Doolittle, a Mormon, is an ardent opponent of casino gambling …” and was a lapdog for Dubya’s roundly defeated Social Security reform, and a rabid anti-environmentalist. At one of these fundraising sessions he was said to be “worse than a flimflam man at a carnival.”

These are old allegations of wrongdoing; they should not be forgotten but added to the current plethora of allegations.

It ought not to be difficult to see who was lying in the Bloomfield matter.

The people will purge Doolittle like they purged Delay, Cunningham, and Ney ... by applying constant pressure to the man. To do so, they must keep asking questions about his ethics and demonstrate with the Caught Red Handed group at all his invitation-only appearances. Corruption does not wear well in the light of day or when focused on under a magnifying glass. Just ask Abramoff, Wilkes, DeLay, Ney, Shanlon and Cunningham, Doolittle’s working partners and close friends.

In an open society truth will always triumph, but sometimes it takes a little time. Work hard but be patient.
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