New Sheriff in Town
Posted by: Darin Schemmer | 09/17/2007 3:16 PM
h/t to The Desert Sun for putting this out just after the Board of Supervisors voted to name the interim sheriff, who will be running the department for the next 3 years. You can watch the archived footage of the public comment period and candidate introductions from today's meeting here.
County Supervisors name Sniff as replacement sheriff
A veteran of law enforcement for three decades, fired by Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle last December, will now take the helm as county sheriff upon Doyle's retirement next month.
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today voted 3-2 to name Stanley Sniff sheriff upon Doyle's retirement Oct. 12. Supervisors Roy Wilson and Bob Buster were opposed.
Watch mydesert.com for further updates, and read a complete report in Tuesday's The Desert Sun.
Conservative ideas are not dead, there a just dang few conservatives who can communicate....
Outstanding! Sniff has been an ethical and highly respected member of the Sheriffs department and was wrongly discharged by Doyle. Many were wondering why it happened so early after the reelection but it was clearer once it was announced Doyle was leaving. Sometimes when yo think you're smarter than everyone else things don't turn out the way you think they will.
What the article doesn't say is that the union leaders along with the D.A. and certain members of the board had already decided on who they wanted to replace Doyle.
One of the rank and file spoke up to say that the union had not even asked it’s members who they would like to endorse. Apparently the union leaders had their own agenda separate from the wishes of it's actual members.
The supervisors had stated they wanted to have an open and transparent selection process without all the politics. That certainly didn’t seem to be the case.
From what I witnessed and what was hinted at by a few of the supervisors I predict the new Sheriff will promptly promote Valerie Hill to Undersheriff. After all, they are counting on him to be the Sheriff who does as he’s told…