BACA URGES SUPPORT IN RACE; CANDIDATE DENIES `SINISTER ALLEGATIONS'.Byline: Daily News Surrounded by cheering supporters Saturday morning, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff candidate Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. spoke publicly for the first time since the death of his opponent, Sheriff Sherman Block, and urged voters to support him rather than leave the choice to the Board of Supervisors. At the rally, which drew about 250 people, Baca also responded to a KCBS KCBS Kansas City Barbecue Society KCBS Korea Christian Book Service (now called KCB; Seoul, Korea) KCBS Kerala Catholic Bible Society (Kerala, India) (Channel 2) report Friday night that he was too forceful during a disciplinary hearing against a deputy two years ago in demonstrating a chokehold on the deputy's female representative. No report was made of the incident until last month at the height of the campaign. Baca did not go into the details of the incident during his news conference, but later issued a press release specifically disputing what he called ``sinister allegations'' against him. ``I did nothing inappropriate,'' he said in the press release about the chokehold demonstration, ``and, in fact, she did not complain about this until two years later during a hotly contested campaign.'' He said he had her permission for the demonstration and called her complaint, which is under investigation by the department, ``a blatant eleventh-hour attempt to discredit my campaign.'' Campaign officials for Block denied any involvement in the allegations. The sheriff died Thursday. The Block campaign is being carried on by his supporters. They hope he will get the most votes posthumously, allowing the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. to appoint a successor who would not face election for two years. Funeral services for Block are scheduled at 11 a.m. today in the Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the . Private burial services will follow at Hillside Cemetery in Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. . At his rally, Baca, a retired Sheriff's Department chief, said that the ``election is about public safety, not a back-door deal.'' Also speaking Saturday in support of Baca were several lawmakers, including Baca's campaign co-chairman, Assemblyman Robert Hertzberg Robert Myles Hertzberg was born on November 19, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, was an attorney and businessperson, and served in the California State Assembly from 1996-2002. , D-Van Nuys, and Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Los Angeles. |
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