Another day, another example of Scott Jones’ lack of judgement costing taxpayers.
Jones just wouldn’t accept a jury’s finding that his department retaliated against four veteran female sheriffs who spoke out about preferential treatment under his watch and vowed to challenge the verdict.
But Jones’ desperate attempt to hide his good old boy management failed and today a judge upheld the $3.6 million verdict, and Sacramento County taxpayers are on the hook to pay the legal bills that are growing day by day.
“Scott Jones will stop at nothing to cover up his lack of judgement, regardless of the ongoing cost to taxpayers,” said Barb Solish of the DCCC. “Sacramento voters deserve to know that Jones is happy to waste their money in a failed attempt to save his reputation. Jones didn’t put a stop to the retaliation against these women while it happened right under his nose, so he should finally do the right thing and drop his costly challenges to the verdict.”
ICYMI:
Judge denies Sacramento County’s call for new trial in deputies’ suit [Excerpts]
The Sacramento Bee
By Darrell Smith
July 13, 2016
- “A Sacramento judge will let stand a multimillion-dollar May verdict that sided with four female Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies who claimed their superiors retaliated against them for complaining about discrimination and preferential treatment.”
- “The May 17 verdict was a major setback for the Sheriff’s Department and its leader, Republican congressional candidate Sheriff Scott Jones, who disputed the deputies’ retaliation claims and vowed to challenge the verdicts.”
- “Much of the conduct detailed in the bias lawsuit was alleged to have occurred while Jones ran Sacramento County Main Jail as a captain and later as sheriff.”