- “I want to wish the incoming sheriff well,” Villanueva said during a news conference.
- “The safety of the community depends on him succeeding. The welfare of every single person in the department depends on him succeeding.”
- “All of this, the whole thing on the deputy gangs, was literally a campaign strategy,” Villanueva said. “My four years in office, I can tell you this all four years, we achieved something very important because if you treat the county government like it is — a corrupt criminal enterprise — we pushed back and opened the window into the corruption of the county.”
