Editor,
Objections raised to Capt. Christina Corpus’ fallacious “lack of experience.” After fighting off a violent carjacker at 16, she joined the Sheriff’s Office and worked her way up by sheer guts. Bolanos has no such experience. As to rank, Don Horsley was only a lieutenant when he became sheriff, and he appointed Munks as undersheriff when he was a lieutenant. Bolanos merely inherited the sheriff post.
Tiny, naïve, Queen Victoria, ascended the British throne at 18 and ruled the British Empire from 1819-1901 despite giving birth to nine children.
In AD 60, Queen Boudicea, of the Iceni took to her chariot and lead warriors to defeat 70,000 Romans. In more recent times many women have risen to lead their countries.
• 46-year-old Katrin Jakobsdottur, prime minister of Iceland;
• Jacinda Arden, prime minister of New Zealand; and
• Angela Merkel, ex-chancellor of Germany.
The present Sheriff’s Office is dysfunctional, lacking in transparency, mired in scandals and in dire need of being brought into the 21st century. It needs Christina Corpus to do just that: with dignity, sincerity, transparency and effectiveness aided by citizen oversight to ensure these values are upheld.
Janet Davis
Menlo Park
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(6) comments
Ms. Davis – your letter is more a letter that speaks to Corpus’ lack of experience rather than a letter of support. Naming a few present and long past historical figures with a lack of experience only highlights the long odds of somebody with little to no experience being successful at a top level. Especially since there are many thousands of present and historical figures that have experience, and have been successful and effective leaders. Why roll the dice with Corpus’ less than a year of experience as police chief when we can retain Bolanos’ six years of effective leadership as Sheriff? Perhaps after Corpus’ has shown herself to be effective at a top level for an extended period of time…
Terrance Y
Even after reading this great LTE, you still can't wrap your noggin around the plethora of details that author meticulously played out in order to quelch malcontents like you and others from the other side.
Where's Ray Fowler when we need him as Ray probably knows both candidates well.
Of course Ray is also the magnificent former LE officer that cracked the then mysterious case of who was messing with then Byrne's Market at Bridge and Marine Parkway. Stealth Ray caught the perps red handed.
Vote CC all the way.
Carlos has golf and fishing to look forward to and maybe even a visit to Nevada. 😎👍😎.
JestMikey650. Even after reading my great comment, you still can’t wrap your noggin around the plethora of detail I wrote in order to highlight the lack of Corpus’ experience vs. Bolanos’ experience to inform readers from both sides. Corpus can continue her Millbrae police chief job to gain experience at a leadership level and to see if her programs will be successful. As for now, Corpus has no track record, but if somebody making promises is all you need… Corpus may want to take a short break after the election. I hear Manassas and Fredericksburg are nice places to visit.
Terence,
Your hypocrisy is on full display, of course I would expect nothing less!!
Taffy – as expected, you have nothing to add to a conversation. Are you trying to expand your shtick outside of your usual mirror thing or fantasy world thing? I know you have another shtick but they all begin to blur into the same irrelevant response.
Terence,
There is no way I can compare to you when it comes to blurring something into the same irrelevant response! BTW, you are still welcome in the real world whenever you want to leave your imaginary one!
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