DA Christie Stanley to Retire, Citing Health Concerns

» Proofreader on 01.26.10 @ 05:03 AM

I’m pretty sure you mean either 30 years or 3 decades rather than: “She has served in the District Attorney’s Office for more than 30 decades”

[Noozhawk’s note: You’re right. Thanks.]

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» Jones on 01.26.10 @ 09:07 AM

Former District Attorney Tom Sneddon strongly supported his hand-picked successor, Christie Stanley, to become his successor.  District Attorney Stanley now strongly supports her hand-picked successor, Josh Lynn, to become her successor.  As experience shows us, hand-picked successors don’t always work out.  It’s time to for new leadership and better vision in our District Attorney’s Office…..

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» Confused Daze on 01.26.10 @ 04:29 PM

Seems like Christie’s main job was leadership and making tough calls.  I don’t hear complaints about how the DAs do their jobs. Look at all the gang creeps getting convicted (yay!)  Marty Blum worked through her cancer, maybe Christie wasn’t so lucky.  Doesn’t mean she didn’t give 110%

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» the Real Taxpayers Association on 01.26.10 @ 04:55 PM

Nice way to spike her pension.

Why should anyone expect any “outrage and editorializing” from Joe Armendariz and Lanny Ebenstein?  They are hypocrites again and only care about partisan politics and not really saving taxpayer money.

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» Tucker on 01.26.10 @ 07:24 PM

SB Native et.al.

  For starters, if you are not present as a Department Head, someone else on the District Attorney’s staff has to go to Department Head meetings, pertinent Board of Supervisor meetings, and represent the District Attorney’s office at other meetings and conferences in addition to doing their own full time job.  And do this for weeks and months and years on end.

  As a Dept Head, you’ve got performance reviews to write on your top executives.  Except you are not there to write them, much less observe the performance of your top executives in the first place.

  As a Dept head, you lead your Department in budget reviews, and consult with others in your Department about them.  Videoconferencing certainly exists, but you’ve got to be in an office to do videoconferencing.

  As a Dept Head, you are critical for setting the vision of the Department, acknowledging training needs and fufilling them,  making discipline decisions when necessary, networking with other Department Heads and State organizations, etc.  A second in command can try to do this for awhile, but it’s catch as catch can, and stuff falls off the plate.  There is no substitute for a full time Department Head, except on a 1 week vacation basis.

  If everything goes smoothly in the absence of the elected District Attorney, then why do we need one in the first place?

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» Let's Stop Making Excuses on 01.26.10 @ 11:30 PM

Let’s get back to the facts at hand.  Josh Lynn has stated that he should be able to “complete his term“…well that term ends when Stanley is no longer DA.  End of story.  His “position” as what ever he and Stanley have decided to describe it is fictitious at best.  She is/was the DA for the past 3 year.  What she did prior to that is irrelevant given her performance as DA.  I will not, as others have done, give her a pass because of her illness as sad as it may be.  She was elected and entrusted to be a public servant.  That comes with great responsibility.  I don’t car about her political affiliation.  What I do care about is honoring the public’s trust.  She violated it plain and simple.  There’s no way around it.  And Josh Lynn by standing by and doing nothing to suggest that she could do better to live up to what the voters of Santa Barbara County elected her to do is disgraceful.

The way I see it, is that this was purely a career move on Lynn’s part.  Seems to me he could give “f” all about what is best for the DA’s office and the residents of the county.  His actions, or inactions, have shown that he only cares about what is best for his own self interest.  Other’s may want to defend him and taut is “appointment” as something “from on high” that should not be questioned.  But for those of you who believe that I would encourage you to dig a little deeper and look at the facts.  Stanley is an embarrassment to the office, plane and simple.  Given her regard for the position the electorate placed her in, all her decisions should be questioned. 

That’s all I have to say on the issue you fill in the blanks…

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» just wondering... on 01.27.10 @ 12:02 PM

I am currently on sick leave - this means I receive HALF my regular salary, and - thank god - my insurance is still active. Meanwhile my workplace has to pay someone else to do my job in the interim.. My sick leave will be “up” in 25 [I think] weeks. i hope I’ll be back at work long before that… My point is the City is already cash-strapped. We cannot afford to pay twice for one job. It’s true that cancer is debilitating. But she’s 3 YEARS INTO THIS; she should have stepped down long ago… there would’ve been a way for her to get a pension and insurance, but this is milking us DRY.
Bythe way I have not heard ANYTHING positive about this Josh Lynn dude - not on the posts here, and not out and about town. Why don’t we try to get someone in that job who has NOT been picked by Stanley? She’s been absent for so long she does not have what it takes to decide her successor.

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» @San Roque Resident on 01.27.10 @ 07:47 PM

If you’re gonna go the route of picking someone to baby sit that’s outside the DA’s office how about you pick someone who hasn’t endorsed one of the candidates.  McKinley’s already done that so he’s out.  Got any other brilliant ideas that don’t “disenfranchise” Josh?

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