{"id":1740417,"date":"2022-11-15T22:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740417"},"modified":"2022-11-15T22:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:17:48","slug":"los-angeles-county-sheriff-concedes-re-election-race-slams-local-media-political-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-county-sheriff-concedes-re-election-race-slams-local-media-political-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County Sheriff Concedes Re-Election Race; Slams Local Media, Political Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flos-angeles-county-sheriff-concedes-re-election-race-slams-local-media-political-establishment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva conceded Tuesday to former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna, who comes with a long list of Democratic establishment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunaforsheriff.com\/endorsements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva formally admitted defeat during a press conference at the Hall of Justice near downtown L.A. after the latest election results from the <a href=\"https:\/\/results.lavote.gov\/#year=2022&#038;election=4300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">county registrar\u2019s office<\/a> showed with more than 1.2 million ballots counted, his opponent won with just over 60% of the vote from county residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to wish the incoming sheriff well,\u201d Villanueva said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MuiUkQyywQc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news conference<\/a>. \u201cThe safety of the community depends on him succeeding. The welfare of every single person in the department depends on him succeeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva spent the greater portion of his press conference unraveling false narratives created about his administration by the political establishment and legacy media outlets, which failed to accurately report or clear up propaganda spread about the sheriff\u2019s department.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff also blamed his loss over the media\u2019s coverage of so-called deputy gangs, or \u201ccliques,\u201d within the law enforcement department that allegedly encouraged violence against residents, jail inmates, and even fellow deputies who challenged them. Villanueva has repeatedly denied allegations of having any ties with the groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of this, the whole thing on the deputy gangs, was literally a campaign strategy,\u201d Villanueva said. \u201cMy four years in office, I can tell you this all four years, we achieved something very important because if you treat the county government like it is \u2014 a corrupt criminal enterprise \u2014 we pushed back and opened the window into the corruption of the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County supervisors and Villanueva clashed on several issues during his term, who backed efforts to defund the department.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, Villanueva refused to comply with vaccine mandates, exposed the homeless industrial complex, and other allegations of corruption and fraud rotting within the board of supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva again slammed the media for the lack of accountability on the local government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need you to be the voice of democracy that will survive,\u201d Villanueva said. \u201cYou can\u2019t survive if all you do is parrot the political narrative of the establishment \u2014 that is a democracy in decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles residents also approved with 70% voting in favor of ballot Measure A, which gives the county\u2019s Board of Supervisors the power to fire a sitting sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>The new measure puts the incoming sheriff at the mercy of the board.<\/p>\n<p>Luna, who headed the Long Beach police for seven years before retiring last year and a former Republican turned Democrat in 2020, thanked Los Angeles County voters for his victory and offered \u201cbest wishes\u201d to his opponent in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply honored and humbled that you have elected me as your next sheriff,\u201d Luna wrote. \u201cWith your vote, you have entrusted me with a clear mandate to bring new leadership and accountability to the Sheriff\u2019s Department,\u201d which is the nation\u2019s largest sheriff\u2019s department, with nearly 10,000 sworn deputies.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SEKfIKuSW2\">pic.twitter.com\/SEKfIKuSW2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Luna (@lunaforsheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lunaforsheriff\/status\/1592653415381106692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Villanueva claimed Luna has called his administration \u201cchaos and dysfunctional,\u201d filled with \u201cscandals\u201d run by \u201ca rogue sheriff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luna ran his campaign on promises to reform and modernize the sheriff\u2019s departments and jails while claiming to reduce crime, address homelessness, and restore so-called public trust in the County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-11-15\/luna-wins-la-county-sheriff-election-over-villanueva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a>, Jeff Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks and a longtime Democratic donor, contributed at least half a million dollars to a campaign committee supporting Luna.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva denounced \u201cthe arrogance of the select few \u2014 the billionaire crowd, in particular \u2014 who may know how to make movies, but they don\u2019t know how to run law enforcement organizations,\u201d adding that such crowds are willing to wipe out the leadership to better suit their ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic Party is now married to the progressive movement in L.A.,\u201d Villanueva said. \u201cAnd how that plays out on a national level \u2014 I don\u2019t know. But here locally, I can say it is a very anti-Latino coalition \u2014 it is anti-law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva conceded Tuesday to former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna, who comes with a long list of Democratic establishment endorsements. Villanueva formally admitted defeat during a press conference at the Hall of Justice near downtown L.A. after the latest election results from the county registrar\u2019s office showed with more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1740420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}