Monday, October 27, 2014

[Sutter County] Off Beat: Team Sutter wants answers – from Team Sutter


October 26, 2014
Appeal-Democrat
By Harold Kruger

Sutter County supervisors have suddenly become inquisitive.
They want answers, and they want them, well, maybe next year.
Yes, the board earlier this month voted to ask the grand jury to investigate what the heck has been going on in the District Attorney's Office.
Wow!! Now???
Interestingly, the supervisor who made the courageous motion to seek the grand jury inquiry is James Gallagher, who just happens to be running for an Assembly seat.
He can now proclaim he's taken the bull by the horns after the horse left the barn.
So the grand jury, which may choose to ignore all of this, is being to asked to investigate misuse of a state grant and how the DA's Office managed to not prosecute a sheriff's deputy in a domestic violence case.
Regarding that misuse of grant money, the former district attorney explained all of that many months ago to the board. The supervisors didn't seem to have any qualms then.
Maybe they've just wised up. Or maybe they're just slow to awaken from their collective slumber.
A lot of weird things have happened in the last few years, and a lot of lawsuits were settled for something more than nuisance value, but this board really doesn't bother to offer much insight into those, or express any concern.
But now they can shovel all of this stuff in the direction of the grand jury (an august body in Sutter County) and let it issue a report next year when nobody will care.

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