Costa Mesa Police Chief Quits in Protest to Tea Partiers in City Council

I posted a diary not long ago about the vandalism at one costa mesa councilman’s house, that possibly was done by an associate of the republican councilman to cast blame on unions.

Here’s the latest in Costa Mesa, via the LA Times..

http://www.latimes.com/news/lo…

Costa Mesa’s police chief resigned abruptly Monday, leaving behind a blistering four-page memo that calls the City Council majority “unethical and immoral” and accuses them of manufacturing a fiscal crisis in order to slash the city’s workforce by nearly half.

By day’s end, Costa Mesa City Manager Tom Hatch announced he had already hired a replacement for Chief Steve Staveley and angrily condemned the departing chief’s memo as “unprofessional” and “potentially libelous.”

Click the link, and give it a read…