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LA supervisors order draft of a ballot measure that would let them remove Sheriff Villanueva
Daily News ^ | 7/13/22 | Steve Scauzillo

Posted on 07/16/2022 4:40:03 PM PDT by Libloather

In an unprecedented action, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to craft a proposed measure, aimed for the November ballot, that would give the board the ability to remove Sheriff Alex Villanueva and future elected sheriffs from office.

Lawyers for the county were tasked with writing a charter amendment that would go before county voters on Nov. 8. If their measure receives a majority of votes cast, the board would be granted the power to remove an elected county sheriff for the first time in its history. Removing a sheriff would take a vote of four of the five supervisors.

The five-person board voted 4-1 to draft the measure, with Supervisor Kathryn Barger casting the lone dissenting vote. Barger said she questioned the basis of the proposal, calling it politically motivated, and asked why it only targets the sheriff and not other county leadership positions. Supervisors Hilda Solis, Sheila Kuehl, Janice Hahn and Holly Mitchell strongly supported the ballot measure. A finalized measure containing the triggers for removal and exact language will come back to the Board of Supervisors on July 26.

During the last four years, Sheriff Alex Villanueva has blocked investigations of deputy gangs and resisted oversight into several fatal shootings by deputies, often defying subpoenas, the board’s motion said.

Those actions prompted the supervisors to repeatedly pass motions to investigate the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, including two motions in 2020 for independent reviews of the fatal deputy shooting of 18-year-old Andres Guardado, a security guard from Gardena, who was shot five times in the back, as shown in two independent autopsies.

Increasingly, the relationship between the sheriff and the Democrat-dominated Board of Supervisors, who hold the Sheriff’s Department’s purse strings, has become outright toxic.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: alexvillanueva; ballot; california; defundtheleft; la; losangeles; sheriff; villanueva
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Can the board members be arrested for insurrection? Have the sheriff do it.
1 posted on 07/16/2022 4:40:03 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The Banana Gynocratic State of Lost Angels


2 posted on 07/16/2022 4:45:16 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: Libloather
Buncha black BLM'er board members gonna remove a Hispanic ELECTED official? The good Sheriff is the ONLY VOICE OF SANITY in that God-forsaken city and that's EXACTLY why they want him out.

The people should REVOLT.

3 posted on 07/16/2022 4:45:32 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Libloather

They’re all women ? LOL


4 posted on 07/16/2022 4:46:15 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CivilWarBrewing
The people should REVOLT.

The people on the right or even the middle won't revolt.

5 posted on 07/16/2022 4:47:01 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The one Supervisor who vited against this nonsense is GOP; Kathryn Barger


6 posted on 07/16/2022 4:48:13 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: butlerweave

Five females - probably only Barger Identifies as such


7 posted on 07/16/2022 4:48:59 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: CatOwner

I live here I will sin a petition and vote to recall, because Barger is not my supervisor


8 posted on 07/16/2022 4:49:58 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: Libloather

If our side plays this right, this could be the issue that completes the realignment of Hispanics over to the Republican side…


9 posted on 07/16/2022 4:50:23 PM PDT by Slicksadick (We accept the love we think we deserve.)
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To: Libloather

Sad to say, but the idiot voters of Los Angeles will approve any measure supported by the corrupt Democrat’s who run the city. And I know from first hand experience, having lived for years in Los Angeles. I watched with disbelief while voters approved raising taxes, borrowing money and other measures that would take money out of their pockets and put in in the pockets of the corrupt Democrats and their families.


10 posted on 07/16/2022 4:56:40 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: Libloather

Oops! The sheriff is an elected office. A bunch of racist, white BLM females on the LA County board can’t remove an elected sheriff. That’s up to the voters.

These 50 IQ, female commie clowns also can’t remove an elected member of the house. Nor an elected senator or a president.

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva needs to use his investigative power to remove these commie clowns from the LA County board. I guarantee you that each of these democrat females are dirty, engaged in malfeasance, misfeasance and embezzlement.


11 posted on 07/16/2022 4:58:04 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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You mean you want the sheriff out? Why?


12 posted on 07/16/2022 4:58:10 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Slicksadick

Yep. The grey propaganda approach to this can be something along the lines of: ‘Support this measure so that we can finally rid ourselves of that greasy, Mexican sheriff that hates the brothers and sisters.’


13 posted on 07/16/2022 5:01:50 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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They’re all women ? LOL

Isaiah 3:12 has the following curse:
"As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them."

14 posted on 07/16/2022 5:02:18 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: BigEdLB

So, Are you saying that you are a scum sucking Lib? You side with the libs that are promoting this?


15 posted on 07/16/2022 5:03:45 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
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To: Libloather

> , the board would be granted the power to remove an elected county sheriff for the first time in its history <

Really bad idea. A sheriff is elected by the people. If you’ve got a bad sheriff, okay. Schedule a recall election to remove him. But no county board should be able to remove an elected official.


16 posted on 07/16/2022 5:07:44 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: rod5591

Sad to say, but the idiot voters of Los Angeles...blah, blah, blah.

Your “idiot voters” elected a sheriff who is defying the leftist BLM racists on the LA County board.


17 posted on 07/16/2022 5:07:46 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“The grey propaganda approach to this can be something along the lines of: ‘Support this measure so that we can finally rid ourselves of that greasy, Mexican sheriff that hates the brothers and sisters.’

I don’t think so. Mexicans dominate LA County and will become the major demographic in LA County by 2023.


18 posted on 07/16/2022 5:12:25 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Libloather

Cuz “Democracy”, yuh know


19 posted on 07/16/2022 5:22:36 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Libloather

Add in there all elected Judges! Let’s see how that flies.


20 posted on 07/16/2022 5:26:14 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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