Eben Gossage
Eben Gossage is the legacy of misogyny John Burton wishes the public wouldn't remember.

Things didn't get better even after the Grand Jury pointed out the State is marketing children.

Twice defeated, fat cats keep trying to hide assets.

May, 2006 marks the latest Defeat for Ron Burkle.

Recently, Murray's attempts to punt by removing the urgency clause, which would allow passage by 41 Assembly votes instead of 54, failed. Female lawmakers stymied the effort. Five voted yes, 14 no, and six abstained.

More on how it really works.

John Burton Rides to the Divorce Rescue of Billionaire friend, Ron Burkle.

Wow. You mean the rich can get laws changed, During their divorce?

You didn't know? We mention this, in case the reader is of the opinion there's fairness in family court. There's politics. From requests for restraining orders, to attempts to keep some matters secret.

Wow. it's that bad?

At the lower court level? Absolutely. But there is good news. The Appeals Court booted Burton's very snarky move.

Isn't the Court interested in the best interest of the children?

As nicely as we can say this...new in town?

Legislators, to whom the Court pays close attention, are interested in commerce and protecting the financially secure. Everyone else, as is repeatedly demonstrated but seldom reported in mainstream press, is a distant second. Unfortunately, John Burton, is the best example of a really bad example of how little the State actually cares for children.

How so?

Long time, (and now Former) Senate Pro Tem, John Burton, was generally a perennial no-show for abused children.

Nothing much has changed to protect children since the heartfelt plea from theThe San Diego Grand Jury, for which Burton remained characteristically, mute. Below are portions of that letter.

On April 20, 1992, the San Diego County Grand Jury made a report to Honorable John Burton of the 16th district family court. The following are actual statements from their findings:

"The jury has serious concerns that these abuses (by social workers) have seriously eroded public confidence in CPS's ability to fairly protect children and their families. If the legislature does not approve legislation to control social worker abuse of public confidence the jury fears a public backlash which may seriously impact society's ability to protect children.

We seek legislative changes in the immunity provisions governing social workers and others involved in the child abuse system. This may be the most important recommendation of the jury because that single change carries the potential remedy a great many of the other problems found in the system. The jury believes the current system of absolute immunity is the single greatest deterrent to change. Social workers who perform their task in good faith will have nothing to fear and still be protected by qualified immunity. The jury has witnessed the unfortunate truth of a statement made by a trial attorney within the fourth district court of appeals. "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Absolute immunity is absolute power." The jury was hesitant to reach the conclusion that absolute immunity must go, but having seen the results of this immunity in the lives of the citizenry, we adamantly believe it must."

The Grand Jury report went on to say:

"The San Diego Grand Jury has:

* Seen episodes of social worker perjury in court records, and indeed, even in court testimony.

* heard testimonies by attorneys and court-appointed therapists that social workers have threatened to have them removed from court approved lists if they failed to adhere to the social worker's recommendations

* heard testimonies that social workers have threatened to remove additional children from families who fail to exactly follow social workers recommendations even when there is no issue regarding that child.

* heard testimonies that even repeated adverse reports by professionals about individual social workers have resulted in a failure to discipline

* heard testimonies from attorneys that when faced with the most blatant abuses of power, there are still no remedies for their clients

* heard therapists testify that social workers have threatened to ruin their careers with a report that they have "accommodated the denial" of a client, or questioned a "true finding"

* seen evidence of social workers conspiring to place children for adoption with their own (social worker's) family members even while reunification with natural family was in process

* seen evidence of social workers placing children in particular foster homes which would render the opportunity to reunify non-existent

* read numerous Social Study reports filled with innuendo, half truths and lies

* seen evidence of social workers so obsessed with molestation scenarios that they were unable to maintain even a semblance of objectivity" (San Diego Grand Jury, 1992). "

Nothing happened after the Grand Jury exposed a lot of corruption.

Our tax dollars at work.

Below is the actual, scathing report from the San Diego Grand Jury, after they repeatedly caught social workers repeatedly lying, to suit their needs. San Diego Grand Jury Report

Doesn't anyone care about the kids?

Hmmm. New in town?

Our children, our most cherished resource, are also our most vulnerable, because they have no money. No money means few friends and no protection from predators, including, predatory attorneys. This also applies to predatory judges. and members of the legislature.

Is it really that bad?

It's worse than you can imagine.

Burton's disdain for women is legendary. The most significant example being the time he changed his busy schedule to plea before the State Bar, for Eben Gossage, a Marin man who a few years earlier, claw-hammered his sister to death, stabbing her body forty-eight times.

After Gossage did a few years time, he went to law school but was denied the right to practice law passing the the State Bar.

Not for killing his sister. Nope. Because he accumulated a number of parking tickets and Minor scrapes with the law which he 'forgot' to include on his application.

You read that correctly. Killing the sister the State Bar decided, was well, okay. But it was lying on the application that bothered them. We're unsure as to why. Perjury is seldom prosecuted.

But when bar officials blocked Gossage's attempts, Burton, immediately rammed a rule change through the State Bar Court, to exclued non-lawyers from the State Bar appeals process.

Why?

Because it was the non-lawyer vote against, that changed the vote. Details here, Burton's Attack

Meanwhile, the ever self-indulgent, former Senate Pro Tem commandeere legislation providing nearly a half million dollars for special drug abuse treatment centers for attorneys with substance abuse problems. (The most effective, 12 step programs, are not commerce related, so no favors are to be gained from simply steering attorneys there). Naturally, grants went to Burton's buddies.

Burton's lack of regard for women also manifests in smaller, expressions.

Below from The San Francisco Chronicle on May 19, 2003, one panhandlers and hookers.

For the record, Burton does put his money where his mouth is -- regularly dropping bills into the cups of panhandlers he passes on the street.

"See that guy," Burton once said of a disabled panhandler on Fifth Street. "I used to give him a dollar every time I saw him. Then one night I saw him with a hooker."

He shook his head. Then, with a wink of the eye, he added:

"Now I give him a fiver."

What a guy.

The public can educate themselves and others. Make and/or purchase a Judicial Report for any type of judge at USAjudges.com

How many women will be killed by their Intimate Partners and kids killed by their parents before media assigns a beat reporter to family court?

Please inform your elected representatives of this site and ask for their representation.

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