Dec. 4, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| Did you think it would be this tough dealing with the leaders in LA? I didn't know that they were that dirty. | |
| I knew there was some corruption, but the level of corruption is breathtaking. | |
| My first month in office, they hired a law firm to sue me. | |
| They knew I was independently elected as sheriff. | |
| I'm bound by ethics. | |
| If it's right, well, we're going to do it. | |
| I don't care what it is. | |
| That freaked out the corrupt board of supervisors. | |
| I was a marked man from the very beginning. | |
| I mean, they threw everything in the kitchen sink at me. | |
| I survived the Department of Justice, investigation of the Sheriff's Department. | |
| I survived two criminal grand juries. | |
| I inherited a budget of $101 million in the whole. | |
| I left it $74 million in the surplus in the Times denouncing my mismanagement. | |
| Well, I was told early on by an LEC council person who was named William Anonymous, he said, well, you can be a reformer or you can be re-elected. | |
| And you know what? | |
| He was right. | |
| And I chose to be a reformer. | |
| If my goal was to be re-elected, I would have not achieved what I achieved when I was in office. | |
| In reality, we achieved an incredible amount of progress in four years. | |
| But that progress is threatening to a corrupt administration. |
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