“Do as I say, don’t do as I do!” That should be the tag line Santa Clara County’s Sheriff Laurie uses on all her letter head and advertisements. Sixteen years ago the incumbent became California’s first female Sheriff. With that powerful distinction of being the first to brake that particular glass ceiling, one would think Sheriff Laurie would be at least slightly sympathetic towards women’s causes. Right?…. WRONG!

I have just stumbled across a bit of peculiarly interesting information, I wonder why Sheriff Laurie refused to participate in a Sheriff’s Candidate Forum hosted by The Santa Clara Valley League of Women Voters? The incumbent snubs The League of Women Voters, I must admit, I didn’t see that one coming. But I didn’t see Crime Victim’s United pulling their endorsement from Sheriff Laurie either. Then again, thinking back of some of her more outrageous actions against women, maybe it should have been expected.

Take for example former inmate Monique Townsend, suffered a miscarriage while in custody. One of Sheriff Laurie’s favorite custody pets, Lieutenant Pantiga, parades the fetas around, in front of the inmate like it was show and tell time. One of the Correctional Deputies on duty that fateful day sees this crude, inhuman and vile action and documents it on an internal report.

On the face of this, one would think that at the very least, someone so cruel and callus, parading another woman’s miscarried fetus around would be terminated at the very least. But not if that person is a personal friend of the incumbent, Sheriff Laurie.

Now I am sure that if someone was to actually spot the incumbent at work, you could simply ask hew about this particular incident. However, I would wager that she would claim no knowledge of it. So perhaps it would be better to contact the Sheriff’s other pet, the one who had the righteous harassment complaint against her former boss, but now retired underling/contractor who gets to double dip. However this Pet let the complaint go in exchange chevrons. This newly promoted Pet conducted a sweep under the rug investigation to avoid what should have been devastating legal action. The Promoted Pet was heard saying, “We are so lucky the inmate is so far gone (implying her mental state is diminished) or we would be liable for a big lawsuit.”

Sheriff Laurie is all about politics. She is all about what she can get out of her minions, right or wrong be damned. So in hindsight, it makes perfect sense that the incumbent blew off The League of Women Voters, after all, they are an organization focusing on what is right and fair, not dirty politics as usual or horrifically sad show and tell items.

Mars