CHIEF DEPUTY District Attorney Jill Ravitch, pronounced Ravvvvvvitch! with teeth bared through the v’s, Mendo’s most experienced trial attorney, came to us from Sonoma County where she had SoCo’s criminal scumdogs quivering in their paws. Ravitch told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat last week that she intends to run against Sonoma County DA Steven Passalacqua next year, having narrowly lost to Passalacqua in 2006 when, it seems, her ferocity frightened even her supporters, and Mr. P was able to flab past Ravitch by pretending to be a Nicer Person. Ravitch has said that she came to Mendocino County to “improve my management skills,” and what better place to do that than in a chaotic County Courthouse like ours? The run for SoCo DA is expected to be both expensive — perhaps eating up as much as $200k in phony baloney advertising and mailers — and time consuming. Ravitch lives in Sebastopol from where she presently commutes to Ukiah, a daily jaunt of almost 140 round trip miles every work day. A male colleague of Ravitch’s complained months ago that Ravitch and other top Mendo DA staffers, all females in what the boys say is a man-hostile office, got to commute back and forth from her West Sonoma County home at publicly funded County cars. The fellow who made the complaint was subsequently eased out of the office. Or resigned. In any case, he hasn’t been seen since. Can Ravvvvvitch! run for office in Sonoma County while doing justice to her day job here in SteppingStone County? We’ll see. We guess. Maybe.

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