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23Editorial: Supervisors, Stop Wasting Our Money!
T O P I C Discussion Started: 03-28-2006, 4:44 PM Add to the Discussion
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Kern County supervisors have already wasted more than a quarter-million dollars trying to prove a point. The county sued former Sheriff Carl Sparks trying to get back $39,000 in pay he wasn't supposed to hand out to his commanders.

Just so we're all clear on this, the people we elected to run Kern County have already spent more than $250,000 trying to collect $39,000. That works out to wasting nearly $7 for every buck they tried to get back. And the only reason they didn't spend more is because a judge threw out the case against our former sheriff.

This is like the movie Dumb and Dumber, only it's not funny! Because now supervisors are actually considering an appeal, which will cost taxpayers even more.

23ABC says enough of this lunacy. County supervisors, you lost. Get over it. Let Carl Sparks alone. And don't you dare waste another dime of taxpayer money on an appeal.

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kingpen 05-03-2006, 9:47 PM Add to the Discussion
I agree. What purpose would pursuing this serve the community?

EILEENLEFT 03-31-2006, 10:38 AM Add to the Discussion
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE EDITORIAL. THE SUPERVISORS ARE TOO PROUD TO ADMIT THEY ARE WRONG. LEAVE THIS GREAT FORMER SHERIFF ALONE. HE DID WHAT HE THOUGHT HE HAD A RIGHT TO DO AS SHERIFF. THE SUPERVISORS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY HIS COURT COSTS IMO. AS FAR AS THEM WANTING TO APPEAL THE DECISION, THEY'D BETTER THINK AGAIN, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE FED UP WITH THIER TREATMENT OF SPARKS, AND THE WASTEFUL DECISIONS THEY CONTINUE TO MAKE. WE WILL REMEMBER COME ELECTION TIME...I FOR ONE AM READY FOR A NEW GROUP TO REPLACE THEM.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. William J. Clinton

Bryan57 03-30-2006, 7:32 AM Add to the Discussion
I could understand this if he had commited a crime but he didn't, it looks like a personal vendetta to me.

Bryan Bakersfield

franksim 03-30-2006, 12:33 AM Add to the Discussion
I agree 100% with your editorial. I just wanted to add that those board members who voted to waste OUR tax money on a continuing NON-ISSUE will certainly not be re-elected.How do we stop this lunacy before it goes any farther ? Carl Sparks may have violated a technical point but it wasn't an unreasonable thing to do in the first place.Please Channel 23 don't let this go.STP THE LUNACY !!!!!!

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