LA Supervisor Michael Antonovich stumps for his good buddy Steve Cooley regarding prison overcrowding and Blames Jerry Brown

LA Board of Supervisors Michael Antonovich says the prison overcrowding crisis is Jerry Brown's fault

With the prison overcrowding crisis the topic of every major news paper and TV show, Californian’s await for the first released “AB 109′er” to add yet another crime to their rap sheet.  According to the Alahambra Rotary Club newsletter, where Cooley spoke about DNA and such, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office prosecutes 60,000 felony cases and 120,000 misdemeanor cases every year.  Where do the felons go you may ask?  Cooley would like the criminals to go to state prison, but uh oh, there is no more room and they are getting sent back to Steve Cooley and sheriff Baca faster than Cooley can prosecute them.

Steve Cooley is blaming Jerry Brown for AB 109, but who has been in charge for the past 10 years?  We know who, but the media hasn’t quite caught on yet, or they are conveniently leaving that part out. 

The fact is that Steve Cooley has been in charge for the past 10+ years.  If 60,000 felons a year are correct, then for the past 10 years Steve Cooley has felonized 600,000 people, if they were all convicted.  That is a lot of felons under his heavy weight 3 term “historic” position as the elected District Attorney of Los Angeles.   Of course many were probably plea bargained down to lesser charges.  Did Steve Cooley have any idea this crisis was coming?  What has he done about it for the last 10 years?  Don’t worry, we don’t know either.

But, What we do know is that Michael Antonovich and Steve Cooley are good friends.  In 2008, the LA Board of Supervisors approved a 30% raise for Steve Cooley making him the second highest paid elected official, just under good ol’ George W, the president of the United States at that time.  Even Dick Cheney wasn’t paid as much as Steve Cooley.  But, in the debate against  Attorney General Kamala Harris last year, Steve Cooley said about his salary, ”I earned it,” which may have cost him the election.   Antonovich and Steve Cooley are now trying to figure out how to sue Jerry Brown to stop the flow of criminals back to LA County where they originated.

CBS Los Angeles reports, “The L.A. County Board of Supervisors does not agree with Brown’s repeated assertion that only nonviolent offenders will be freed. Antonovich told KNX 1070 realignment is a threat both to public safety and the state’s finances.”

The Daily Breeze reports, “Antonovich argued the county Probation Department should not have to supervise inmates such as the one scheduled for release Friday whose rap sheet includes assault on a peace officer, arson, rape, robbery, possessing a weapon in prison, and indecent exposure.” 

If Cooley could have only predicted this crisis, and had a little forethought or where with all to change the way his office runs, he may have prevented the mess he actually created.  By churning out as many as 60,000 felons, are we surprised the prisons are overcrowded, the state can’t handle them and unemployment is 12%?  We look forward to Steve Cooley and Michael Antonovich’s law suit and predict their solution will neither prevent criminals from being released nor prevent crime.  The crisis Steve Cooley created will soon be setting Conrad Murray free.  Shall we hand Steve Cooley Lindsay Lohan’s hand mirror so he can adore his reflection?  Because his “historic third term” is about to make history and Cooley the un-fairest of them all.

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