How Gene Valentino treats his fellow commissioners (Video-updated)

This is a very rough edit of the June 20 BCC Agenda Workshop and the clips how the chairman, Gene Valentino, belittled and bullied Commissioners May, Barry and Robinson. He talks over Lumon May and then rudely attacks him. He’s upset that they met with the sheriff’s office, even though he had only spent 30 minutes with them and has refused to tour the jail. Steven Barry’s sigh at Valentino’s grandstanding says it all.

It was Valentino who went to the media and attacked the detention deputies. Now he claims that was a strategy and accuses the other commissioners of having hidden agendas.

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