Now that everyone knows what a pig our disgraced former Sheriff Mike Carona is, will we ever receive a formal apology from all the Orange County Republicans who so fervently supported him, even after the OC Weekly had revealed that the man had major issues?
I was at the OC GOP Central Committee meeting when the party endorsed him for the last time. I bitterly and vociferously opposed his endorsement. You should have seen most of the rest of the party members – they loved Carona. I clearly recall sitting next to Matt Harper, who now works for Supervisor Janet Nguyen. I asked him how he could support Carona – and he just smiled and soldiered on for his boy Carona.
No one beat the drum louder for Carona than Red County editor Matt “Jubal” Cunningham. He also was a big supporter of Prop. 8, which employed his amigo Jeff Flint as a consultant and his wife Laura as a “Latino Outreach” coordinator. But how exactly did Carona exemplify the sanctity of marriage when he was with two Debbies at a time and only one of them was his wife? Nice.
Don’t Matt and his red-faced boys owe us all a HUGE apology for foisting Carona on us? I think so. Don’t hold your breath waiting for it.
Art, you are kidding, right? The ability to bestow guns and badges on friends and suporters, as well as to unleash special invstigators upon those who appear to not be supportive, pretty much assures endorsement of an incumbant law enforcement officer. Truth be known, many in the room at that time probably still support him. Ethics is not a critera for support among the movers shakers around here.