{"id":13603,"date":"2011-06-21T19:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-21T19:41:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:41:06","slug":"costa-mesa-police-chief-quits-in-protest-to-tea-partiers-in-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/21\/costa-mesa-police-chief-quits-in-protest-to-tea-partiers-in-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Mesa Police Chief Quits in Protest to Tea Partiers in City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a diary not long ago about the vandalism at one costa mesa councilman&#8217;s house, that possibly was done by an associate of the republican councilman to cast blame on unions. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest in Costa Mesa, via the LA Times..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-costa-mesa-chief-20110621,0,5396956.story\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/lo&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Costa Mesa&#8217;s police chief resigned abruptly Monday, leaving behind a blistering four-page memo that calls the City Council majority &#8220;unethical and immoral&#8221; and accuses them of manufacturing a fiscal crisis in order to slash the city&#8217;s workforce by nearly half.<\/p>\n<p>By day&#8217;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&#8217;s memo as &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; and &#8220;potentially libelous.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link, and give it a read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a diary not long ago about the vandalism at one costa mesa councilman&#8217;s house, that possibly was done by an associate of the republican councilman to cast blame on unions. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest in Costa Mesa, via the LA Times..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-costa-mesa-chief-20110621,0,5396956.story\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/lo&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Costa Mesa&#8217;s police chief resigned abruptly Monday, leaving behind a blistering four-page memo that calls the City Council majority &#8220;unethical and immoral&#8221; and accuses them of manufacturing a fiscal crisis in order to slash the city&#8217;s workforce by nearly half.<\/p>\n<p>By day&#8217;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&#8217;s memo as &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; and &#8220;potentially libelous.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link, and give it a read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[261],"tags":[1555,7109,255],"class_list":["post-13603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-261","tag-1555","tag-7109","tag-255"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}