“Jo Ann Galisky, the ex-undersheriff who was forced out of the Sheriff’s Department last year after a jail beating investigation, has filed a wrongful termination and sexual discrimination lawsuit, alleging she was unfairly accused of lying during that probe and was targeted because she is gay,” according to the O.C. Register.
We rejoiced here at the Orange Juice when Galisky, who was an awful hack for disgraced former Sheriff Mike Carona, got the boot. However, Chris Prevatt, over at the exceedingly lame Liberal OC blog, had this to say about Galisky’s firing:
The Orange Juice Blog has implied that the departure of Galisky and Bishop is in some way connected to the corruption probe and indictment of former OC Sheriff Mike Carona.
Clearly, there is no connection at all between the two other than the fact that Gailsky and Bishop served on Carona’s command staff.
Really Chris? Here’s what R. Scott Moxley had to say about Galisky and her lawsuit, over at the O.C. Weekly’s Navel Gazing blog:
Galisky served as Carona’s vicious attack dog inside the department. Having spent time with her, I would not be shocked if she claimed with a straight face that Carona had never farted. Why? Because she liked to insist that he’d never once told a lie, a laughable assertion even before the corruption trial devastated his fake “Christian conservative” image.)
Wasn’t she part of the perjury and obstruction of justice in the grand Jury’s probe of the Chamberlain murder? If so she should be charged with felonies and prosecuted – along with her boss.
If you are a loser you will always blame some discrimination as a cause….. homo or Mexican. It is all same.
I stopped taking the Liberal OC seriously when Prevatt did his disgusting covers of Galisky simply because she’s a lesbian—and an ugly one!
wait is art gay bashing here . what a hatefull thing to do . gee you where for them in the story above. you flip flop more than kerry and nobama combined .
There’s a bunch of not so smarts posting tonight. Where are all the sane posters?
Some police officer from from Newport beach sued the city for the same reasons.
Unlike Galinsky this guy wasn’t promoted.
Galinsky was promoted.
This is bogus, she was forced out because she abused her position.
Interesting the city of Newport beach brought out many instances where the Newport beach cop acted the same way his superiors acted as a means to show his lack of promotion was not based on a rumor that he was gay.
Also, would like the county to investigate if perhaps Galinski was insensitive to other, perhaps latinos. Was her record as a superior as clean as she semmingly believes it was. any retired cops out there have some information on this gal, who seemed to play the “cops talk” and “cops walk” so sounds like there might be some dirt.
we already know she tried to coverup and mislead investigators looking into the beating case.
She’s digging a hole for Gold but the hole she digging will show all her skeltons.
This suit very predictable – the county is getting ready to settle with Jaramillo for mishandling of his discharge, so it should be no surprise that others who left/were forced out of the Sheriff’s Department will also sue. The Gay aspect is secondary to the mishandling of personnel matters involving law enforcement types. Other suits to come?
The only reason Galisky got promoted to Asst Sheriff was Beacause he was Gay. Not beacasue whe was comptent for the job which she was not.Carona wanted to say he promoted a Gay female to make himself look good when he ran for reelection.She resigned about 1 year ago and during that time until there was no mention of wrongful termination based on her being Gay. It just seems funny now that Jaramillo may be getting some money for his Lawsuit she desides to file one after all this time.
Joanne Galisky may have made some mistakes as all humans do. She has paid a heft price and has acknowledged those mistakes publically. She was a very capable law enforcement manager who happened to be promoted by Carona. She was not a brown noser, he was her boss and he believed in her abilities as a leader. His shortcomings have nothing to do with her strengths as a manager in law enforcements or why she was promoted. She was promoted on merit. She was an amazing woman, Gay of not, she was still a woman and therefore had all of these attributes in addition to her conndection to Carona by emplyment. everyone and anyone who worked directly under Carona had no choice to continue their carrers decorated or not with the OCSD. Hutchins has made sure that anyone and everyone who had any significant history with Carona would not be forgiven for doing their jobs. Being a strong woman hurt her more than being Gay. Instead of bashing and speculating, why dont we look into how much all these lawsuits filed by fomer OCSD employees who simply worked under Carona is costing the county and the taxpayers. I would bet that any minute amount of money Hutchins says she has “saved” the county will be cost 1000$ more after all these wrongful terminations suits are settled. She will go down