By: O.C. Supervisor Chris Norby
The federal criminal indictment against Sheriff Michael Carona has placed a cloud over Orange County
By: O.C. Supervisor Chris Norby
The federal criminal indictment against Sheriff Michael Carona has placed a cloud over Orange County
The Board of Supervisors has no authority to deal with this situation and should simplly make it clear that it is powerless. Putting a ballot proposition forward to give the Board the authority to remove elected county officials from office will open the door to revisiting the colorful history of corruption at the Board of Supervisors level over the years, including prosecutions – convictions, jail time and in other cases resignations under fire. There is no quick and easy solution for this one and the best thing to do is be straighforward and say so.
In the comments section to this article in the Register, Sgt. Rich White sends his comments and is still defending Carona. I was waiting to hear from him, but I can’t believe he is still on the sinking boat. I wish I knew you better, White, just to see what makes someone like you tick.
Carona is doing to himself what Bill Hunt and Ralph Martin failed to do. I very much appreciate hearing about all of Carona’s connections to organized crime as well as to disorganized crime — county officials, the lobbyists and those at the city level who hope to empower themselves by rubbing shoulders with this axis of idiots.
I want Carona to hang on by his fingernails until the feds pry out of him all the sordid details of Orange County politics. Carona and his buddies don’t belong in office, they belong in jail. This is the only possible way to clean house.