All I can say is, "Good Riddance!"
Baca has been an incompetent boob in office. He first caught my ire back in 1998 when he backed Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's ordinance banning gun shows on county property, i.e., the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, where the Great Western Gun Show was held for decades.
I remember attending one meeting of the Board of Supervisors where the ordinance was discussed and Baca was grilled by Supervisor Mike Antonovich. Baca couldn't give a straight answer when asked why he is supporting the gun show ban when his department had a recruitment booth at the gun show.
Unfortunately, the liberal majority on the Board of Supervisors passed the ordinance.
The Los Angeles Times earlier reported:
L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, who faced a tough battle for reelection amid scandals in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, plans to annouce his retirement, law enforcement sources told The Times.
Baca's decision comes a month after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 18 current and former sheriff's deputies accused of beating jail inmates and visitors, trying to intimidate an FBI agent and other crimes following an investigation of corruption inside the nation's largest jail system.
The timing of his announcement remains unclear. But it was confirmed by multiple sources, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity.The last great sheriff L.A. County had was Sheriff John!
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| Above, George Reeves and Sheriff John. |
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-baca-plans-to-retire-source-say-20140106,0,2296941.story#ixzz2pjm6TMfZ
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I am proud to have escaped from L.A. County long, long ago.
Is that why you fled Ventura County for Kern County and then fled Kern County to Ventura County? ;o)
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