I hate to interrupt the all budget all the time vibe we have going on here, but this was really too juicy to pass up. Yesterday, San Bernadino County Assessor Bill Postmus was arrested and  charged with several felonies related to drug charges and possible money laundering. We'll see more as the case proceeds, but it has become clear that at the very least, Bill Postmus is addicted to methamphetamines.
Postmus isn't the first to become addicted to meth, and surely won't be the last. Meth has ruined lives up and down the state. It has decimated rural populations where meth labs sprout up faster than they can be eliminated. Even after psueodephedrine, the main ingredient in the original form of Sudafed, was made a controlled substance, it is cheap and easy to manufacture. Well, an asterisk thrown in there on the easy part, because on occasion the meth labs end up like this photo, you know, big fiery explosion. And in California, the problem is particlurly acute. Not only in rural parts of the state, where the problem was bad enough back in 2000 for McClatchy to write up a whole series on the problem in the Central Valley, but also in the cities. It has hit the gay community particularly hard, where it has become a party drug.
And this is where Postmus comes in, it seems Postmus has been hiding secrets for most of his life.
More about those secrets over the flip.
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