{"id":7059,"date":"2013-06-28T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2015-07-21T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:56:34","slug":"note-to-bill-burton-following-his-soapbox-piece-in-the-sacbee-on-the-rights-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=7059","title":{"rendered":"Note to Bill Burton following his &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; piece in the SacBee on the rights of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Note%20to%20Bill%20Burton%20following%20his%20%22Soapbox%22%20piece%20in%20the%20SacBee%20on%20the%20rights%20of%20women\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong>By Peter Lance July 1st, 2015.<\/strong> Bill Burton, the<a title=\"Daily Beast Bill Burton\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=6880\"><strong> political power broker<\/strong><\/a> and husband of Rep. Lois Capps&#8217; daughter Laura, published a heart warming piece in the &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column of <strong>The Sacramento Bee<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, entitled <a title=\"Bill Burton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/soapbox\/article25360096.html\"><strong>&#8220;Legoland, Hillary and teachable moments.<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; It was illustrated with a picture of Bill and his son Oscar.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-28-at-11.31.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7060\" title=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-28 at 11.31.48 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-28-at-11.31.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the piece Bill made some important points about the inequality with which women are continually treated in the workplace and he endorses Hillary Clinton&#8217;s election &#8212; not a surprise given <a title=\"Dynasty ends\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=5130\"><strong>Laura&#8217;s close connections<\/strong><\/a> to the former First Family following her days as an intern and White House Aide.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I&#8217;m a lifelong Democrat and Liberal who voted six times for Lois Capps and though I favor Bernie Sanders, I happen to think Hillary would make a much better President than any of the fourteen (count them) declared GOP candidates with John Kasich and Scott Walker waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>But in embracing a crucial issue like equal opportunity for women, Burton, like his wife and mother-in-law, continues to ignore &#8220;the donkey in the room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact, as documented in my series <a title=\"Death On\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=3153\"><strong>&#8220;Death on The American Riviera,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> that Raymond Victor Morua III, Mrs. Capps District Representative and go-to guy on veterans rights, ended the life of a promising young woman, Mallory Rae Dies when he struck and killed her in a hit-and-run accident on December 6th, 2013 after spending the day working multiple events for Mrs. Capps and then getting into his Dodge Caliber with a BAC of .17, more than twice the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-28-at-12.10.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7062\" title=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-28 at 12.10.44 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-28-at-12.10.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-28-at-12.10.44-PM.png 276w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-28-at-12.10.44-PM-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>Bill Burton&#8217;s mother-in-law and his wife, who recently decided not to continue the Capps dynasty by seeking her mother&#8217;s 24th District seat, have refused to come clean about the Capps office&#8217;s role in<a title=\"Part Four\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=3221\"><strong>\u00a0a scheme<\/strong><\/a> to get Raymond out of jail and into a VA treatment facility in the days immediately following the crash while Mallory, a double major and UCSB graduate, clung to life in the ICU at Cottage Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>They continually refuse to address the <a title=\"Unanswered Q's\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=7064\"><strong>Unanswered Questions<\/strong><\/a> that remain unresolved in this scandal, including why Mrs. Capps District Director <a title=\"Electoral College\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=4412\"><strong>Mollie Culver,<\/strong><\/a> a former member of the 2012 Electoral College and Political Director of the California Democratic Party, forged Raymond&#8217;s name three times on two separate VA forms &#8212; punishable by up to five years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that Matt Dies, Mallory&#8217;s father got more than 1,000 Santa Barbarans in person and on-line to sign a <a title=\"Mal Petition\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Vow4Mal-petition.png\"><strong>petition<\/strong><\/a> calling for a federal investigation and asking Mrs. Capps to tell the truth, the Capps\/Burton family continually refuses to address<a title=\"unanswered questions\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=5130\"><strong> the potential criminal charges involved in the case,<\/strong><\/a> even though the Feds quietly settled the Dies&#8217; wrongful death case for $2.5 million and then, apparently closed<strong><a title=\"FBI probe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-la-probe-capps-aide-20140612-story.html\"> the FBI investigation of my findings<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>that had been opened by the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians have always used their children as political assets and who can deny just how cute little Oscar is in that shot accompanying Bill&#8217;s SacBee piece? But to me, the most important feminist issue that festers from that awful night in December 2013 is the way Mallory Dies&#8217; right to live was terminated. And it happened as a direct result of the callous indifference of a troubled young man who was<a title=\"everybody loved Raymond\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=3206\"><strong> &#8220;on the job&#8221; for his boss Mrs. Capps<\/strong> <\/a>when he consumed no less than six cocktails and raced through the streets of Santa Barbara at speeds of up to 80 mph, before crashing his vehicle and getting captured.<\/p>\n<p>What about Mallory&#8217;s rights Bill? When are you and Laura and Lois going to finally give a full accounting of the cover-up behind that death on The American Riviera?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Note%20to%20Bill%20Burton%20following%20his%20%22Soapbox%22%20piece%20in%20the%20SacBee%20on%20the%20rights%20of%20women\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>By Peter Lance July 1st, 2015. Bill Burton, the political power broker and husband of Rep. Lois Capps&#8217; daughter Laura, published a heart warming piece in the &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column of The Sacramento Bee\u00a0Saturday, entitled &#8220;Legoland, Hillary and teachable moments.&#8221; It was illustrated with a picture of Bill and his son Oscar.\u00a0 In the piece Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}