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Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has stones. First elected in 2010, and re-elected twice, he has the personal experience and political weight to ask tough questions, especially of other elected officials. Questions so tough that the paper of record, the Sacramento Bee, decided he needed to be fact checked.
If you’re taking flak, you must be over the target.
Lately he has
been the target, as one of the several California County Sheriffs who has chosen to disregard Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest safer-at-home orders. When Sheriff Jones contracted COVID in December, Newsom used a press conference to attempt to shame the Sheriff as a COVID denier, and cast aspersions on his leadership decisions: