Matt/Jubal Cunningham, the editor of Red-faced County/OC Blog, is reporting that “if Sheriff Mike Carona resigns, the Board of Supervisors will very likely appoint retired Assistant Sheriff Doug Storm to serve as a caretaker sheriff until a permanent sheriff is elected by the voters. That tracks with what I gauge to be the prevailing sentiment among the Supes to appoint a caretaker rather than someone who will stand for election.
Matt/Jubal also wrote that “For those keeping score at home, Storm was briefly the designated champion of Sheriff Brad Gates and the AOCDS to battle then-Marshal Mike Carona for the job back in 1998, before he bowed out and that mantle fell upon then-and-now Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters (himself a likely candidate for sheriff).”
I wonder if Storm is better educated than the current temp Sheriff, Jo Ann Galisky, who has nothing more than a GED?
I also heard Storm’s name mentioned recently by a county source, who also told me that there are several city police chiefs and assistant chiefs who are in the mix to either take over for Carona or run for his position if he gets sentenced.
Martin Wisckol, of Total Buzz, also has a post about former San Clemente Police Chief Bill Hunt, who retired from the O.C. Sheriff’s department after Carona demoted him, following their bitter contest last year. According to a source cited by Wisckol, twenty five people showed up yesterday for a Hunt for Sheriff fundraiser. Wisckol also reported that “If Carona, by the spring, is convicted in his federal corruption indictment or resigns, voters would vote for a new sheriff next June.”
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