What? Really? How?

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Why is Smaligo defending Glanz at all? He needs to back away from this:

Commissioner John Smaligo said Glanz essentially submits a bid each year to run the jail when he develops an annual budget. All eight elected county officials sit on a combined budget board, which reviews and approves the budgets for all county divisions.

"It's everybody's role I think to monitor things as best you can, but it is ultimately the responsibility of that elected official to make those decisions for their office," Smaligo said.

Smaligo said scrutiny of the sheriff's spending appears to be motivated by the city of Tulsa's current contract dispute with the county over paying for jail operations. Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett and two other mayors on the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority recently signed a 41-page letter criticizing the sheriff's spending of jail funds and asking for an investigation.

"(Bartlett's) first three years on the authority he showed up for less than one-third of the meetings," Smaligo said. "Now he begins to care about how money has been spent?"