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A Sheriff's Rising Star Is Dimmed by Scandal (Carona of Orange County)
Los Angeles Times ^ | January 21, 2006 | Christine Hanley and Paul Pringle

Posted on 01/21/2006 2:30:47 PM PST by EveningStar

Scandals and controversies have clouded Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona's public and private lives, dimming the prospects of a man whose political future once seemed unlimited.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: carona; leo; mikecarona; orangecounty; scandal; smear

1 posted on 01/21/2006 2:30:50 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: lainie; BurbankKarl; DoctorZIn; seenenuf; RonDog; abigail2; StoneColdGOP; SevenofNine; ...

Attention SoCal folks


2 posted on 01/21/2006 2:32:13 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

The Slimes, being the patriots and concerned citizens that they are, never miss an oppurtunity to fill in the blanks when facts are absent.


3 posted on 01/21/2006 2:38:51 PM PST by Amerigomag
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To: EveningStar

Looks like something the 'rats can and will sink their teeth into.


4 posted on 01/21/2006 2:39:25 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: EveningStar

I really have liked Mike Corona. I wonder if the LA Times and Dems are not trying to whip this up and bring him down. "Taken individually these things are insignificant' -- 'He refused to be interviewed by the LA Times because in the past we have misrepresented him.'

I might have to give him money for his next run. Anyone the Times hates I have to support.


5 posted on 01/21/2006 2:40:36 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: bboop

LOW CRIME RATE, he's got my vote


6 posted on 01/21/2006 2:54:14 PM PST by bannedfromdu
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To: EveningStar

Too bad. I liked him.


7 posted on 01/21/2006 2:58:20 PM PST by BunnySlippers (Boorrrringg ...)
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To: bboop

Carona's my hero! I hope this is just a dem smear campaign that comes to nothing. He seems so decent.


8 posted on 01/21/2006 3:04:35 PM PST by Rte66
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To: EveningStar
Innuendo, allegations, innsinuations and rumor.

Yeah, it's a smear campaign.

I've heard Mike Carona speak at our church, and he has had very pro-gun articles published in the California Rifle and Pistol Association's magazine. He's a perfect and tempting target for the radical left to try and take down.

I hope his friends and supporters stay right behind him!

9 posted on 01/21/2006 3:22:26 PM PST by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Rte66
I hope this is just a dem smear campaign that comes to nothing. He seems so decent.

Three things are certain when this type of opinion piece masquerades in the LA Times as a legitimate "news" story.

1) Liberals are desperate.
2) Facts are not in evidence to substantiate the allegations.
3) The opposite is probably true if the facts were scrutanized.

A classic LAT smear using time honored methods.

10 posted on 01/21/2006 3:28:05 PM PST by Amerigomag
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To: Salem

That's right. He's a great guy. I'm not buying any smear campaign from the LEFTIES in California. They don't like guns, they don't like conservatives, they don't like law-and-order, they don't like Bush, they don't like Rove -- and they start sliming and smearing.

Well, I for one am not going to listen. I like Corona and he gets my vote.


11 posted on 01/21/2006 9:10:34 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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You guys need to be listening to John and Ken. Carona received a boat from Heidel(sp?) and gave him a check for $5,000. Later, Heidel's wife gave Carona a check for $5,000. IOW, the boat cost him $0. Carona then made Heidel assistant sheriff.

I have no dog in this race but something smells. BTW. Heidel is the father of one of the gang rapers,

12 posted on 10/30/2007 4:55:13 PM PDT by nycgal
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To: EveningStar

Carona —> California’s Bernard Kerik.

To think that they wanted to groom this guy for Governor is telling.

Good riddance! May he get a long prison sentence.


13 posted on 01/14/2008 9:51:56 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: EveningStar

ooops. Wrong thread. Meant to post here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953443/posts


14 posted on 01/14/2008 9:56:19 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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