The chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors on Monday said
he was satisfied that Sheriff Michael
S. Carona had the legal
authority to remove a campaign rival from his job as head of police
services in San Clemente.
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Comedy Central’s new local news mockumentary, “Dog Bites Man,” may
have bitten off more than it can chew.
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Two Orange County sheriff’s employees who supported an unsuccessful
challenger to incumbent Sheriff Michael
S. Carona in this week’s
election were demoted Thursday, as internal turmoil continued in the
wake of the rancorous race.
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Some things just aren’t pretty in the making.
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One day after winning reelection in an incendiary campaign battle
against one of his lieutenants, Orange County Sheriff Michael
S.
Carona placed that lieutenant on paid administrative leave.
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Buffeted by scandal, Orange County Sheriff Michael
S. Carona was
flirting late Tuesday with a November runoff with one of his own
lieutenants – a potential blow to his effort to win a third term
outright and put the strife in his department behind him.
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Laguna Niguel Mayor Cathryn DeYoung has spent more than $2 million of
her own money attacking the political fitness of Patricia Bates, her
chief rival in a heated Orange County supervisorial race on Tuesday’s ballot.
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In an age when safely engineered elective districts have taken the
high drama out of political contests, a state Senate race in central
Orange County bucks the trend.
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Two Democratic lawmakers are competing in the June 6 primary to take
on Secretary of State Bruce McPherson, the only Republican running
for that office, in November.
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First off, there’s the explosive race for sheriff, in which the
incumbent has been asked to resign by two of his challengers.
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