Let the OC Supervisors know how you feel about Carona’s money-grab!
OC Sheriff Mike Carona’s request for $396,000, ostensibly for him to fund a poll to glorify himself, is on the agenda for next Tuesday’s OC Board of Supervisors’ meeting. You can comment about it online to the Supervisors through tomorrow, at noon, by visiting this link.
The meeting is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. To read the agenda, go to this link.
I have posted before as to why giving Carona this money is such a bad idea. Needless to say, it is important for the Supervisors to hear from the public. If you can go to the meeting, even better, but if not, please at least go online and give the Supervisors an earful!
A 390k survey is bull crap. Statewide polling budgets are only $200,000 or so and that is for multple surveys. Generally survey questions cost $250 per question or response item. This means his survey would be in 1500 questions and line item responses.
Does everyone understand the fact that this request is to USE PROP 172 FUNDS (Tax Dollars earmarked exclusively for Public Safety) for a campaign function!!!
Carona’s behavior is absolutely absurd. This man is acting like he just won an election with 80% of the vote, when in fact, he only won by .09% (about 3000 votes countywide).
Does anybody remember the RECENT Measure D fight last November, in which the Sheriff’s Department was screaming that every cent was necessary for frontline law enforcement???
$400,000 dollars will fund four new Deputy Sheriff’s for a year!
Carona doesn’t need ANY poll for the Department. HE IS THE PROBLEM.
That’s why he didn’t get one endorsemnt from any Law Enforcement Agency in the State. Even his own Department REJECTED HIM and endorsed Bill Hunt.
Carona doesn’t have to look farther than the scandal after scandal that HE has brought to the Department and to the County.
The Board of Supervisors need to stop cowering to Carona for whatever reasons and stand up for the taxpayers who elected them.
Heck, Board of Supervisors did nothing to the pompus, disrespecful attorney and Carona who brow-beat them into submission over the political retribution of Lt. Bill Hunt, two weeks ago. They might as well pass a law that makes it illegal for anyone who works in the Sheriff’s or District Attorney’s office, to run for office against an incumbent.
I fear for the political process and for the rights of our Citizens to run for office here in O.C.
It’s time to restore Integrity and Trust to the Sheriff’s Department and to the OCGOP.
Semper Fi,
Tim Whitacre
We need people to come please!
Everyone needs to start standing up to this man.. He is using funds that have nothing to do with the measure you voted on so many years ago by Gov.Wilson. Please I am asking as a Police Officers wife stand up for all the Deputies who cannot stand up against this Sheriff for themselves.
God Bless,
Karen A Finn