🚀 go-pugleaf

Besides, he's only 1/1, and the first guy with a Lightning Bolt to come 
along could take him out...

daemon@leland.stanford.edu wrote:
: This why you should not reelect incumbent Sheriff Charles Gillingham
: in next Tuesday's election:

: First, when you look at these endorsements in favor of Gillingham in
: the local papers, from the Mercury News to Metro, the least that you
: can say is they're rather tepid and lack enthusiam, and can be
: summarized as follows:

:    "Gillingham and Tiano are just as bad as one another. But since
: we've had Gillingham for the last few years and no major catastrophy
: happened during his tenure, we see no reason why we shouldn't
: reelect him for yet another term [without catastrophy]."

: In other words, the best that the media have to say in favor of
: Gillingham is that there's nothing particularly bad that happened
: while he was there. Some endorsement!

: What the public doesn't know, and will never know because of the
: news blackout exerted by Gillingham's people in the Sheriff
: Department, is that Gillingham has been involved personally in the
: past few months in a massive coverup of the Internal Affairs
: scandal. "Nothing until after the elections," he kept repeating.

: Remember the Watergate coverup, anyone? Nixon never condoned or
: encouraged the Watergate break-in, he didn't even know about it. He
: learned about it several weeks after the fact. Yet when he was asked
: to help to cover up what his people had done, he did not hesitate to
: help. You know the rest of the story...

: When a citizen's complaint for embezzlement (see Penal Code section
: 832.5) was filed on January 3 against the Chief of Stanford Police
: (Marvin Herrington), a unit of the Sheriff Dept., Gillingham didn't
: know about it. When Lts. Donald Ziess and Ronald Clark of Internal
: Affairs suppressed the investigation for over 3 months, Gillingham
: still knew nothing about it.

: But when Gillingham learned about it in the middle of April, that's
: when he got involved big time into covering up the story, since the
: fraud at Stanford involves the president of the university himself,
: Gehrardt Kasper. Except that Gillingham is a lot smarter than his
: Internal Affairs people, and he suppressed the investigation while
: smarting pretending that it was going full speed ahead. 

: The result is, after over five months, the fraud still has not been
: investigated, the millions are gone, and Gillingham isn't going to
: let Internal Affairs investigate until after the elections when it's
: too late - Stanford has a lot of clout and he is not eager to upset
: his powerful friends over there.

: The result is, the public isn't going to learn anytime soon where
: all the money went because the investigation was stopped by
: Gillingham. "Nothing until after the elections!"

: If you vote for Gillingham, you're voting to perpetuate a system
: where investigations are suppressed and citizens' complaints covered
: up. One day, there's going to be a big time, Rodney King-style
: beating in Santa Clara County, and the Internal Affairs complaint
: will be covered up as usual, and then there'll a riot and buildings
: set on fire, and then you'll be wondering why you ever voted to
: reelect Gillingham. 

: Think about it Tuesday. Penal Code section 832.5 "citizens
: complaints" requires a police agency to investigate such complaints,
: precisely to weed out these few officers who abuse their powers and
: give the police a bad name. It's these officers that Gillingham is
: actively protecting when he covers up an Internal Affairs
: investigation. He is the one who gives the police a bad name.