Early Friday afternoon, December 18, San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge David Cohn approved a motion by the Red Brennan Group to intervene in a lawsuit targeting Measure K, a local government reform effort passed by voters in the November election. Approved by a “supermajority” of county voters, the initiative set total compensation for an elected supervisor to $60,000 per year and limits an elected supervisor to one 4-year term.
Once the election results were certified, the board of supervisors, using taxpayer funds, contracted with an outside firm to sue the county’s own clerk of the board. The initial motion requested a temporary restraining order directed at the clerk to prohibit any effort to implement the law.