Jim Cooper has a long history of using his official position to make votes that financially benefit him.

While on the Elk Grove City Council, Cooper was told by the City Attorney to recuse himself from voting on 20 different agenda items that directly affects his pocketbook.

According the News & Review, “In 2005, a blistering report from Sacramento grand jury’s identified 20 instances in which Cooper, who also serves on Elk Grove’s city council, allegedly voted on sheriff’s contract matters despite repeated warnings to recuse himself. The report also detailed numerous instances when Cooper allegedly intimidated his colleagues and verbally abused city officials who told him to stop voting.”

Cooper lies whenever it suits him. Cooper repeatedly denied calling the then-mayor Briggs a “Bitch”. But Cooper later admitted it when the evidence was undeniable.

“But back in 2004, Cooper found himself in a real mess. That’s when the grand jury began investigating allegations that Cooper had, since June 2001, illegally voted on the contact between the city and the sheriff’s department for police services. Because Cooper was a high-ranking member of the sheriff’s department, both the Elk Grove city attorney and the Sacramento County counsel’s office said he could not legally vote or even take part in any council discussions regarding the contract to hire the sheriff’s department to police Elk Grove.“

“It was a lucrative contract for the county of Sacramento. In 2000-2001, it brought $7.7 million to the county. By 2001-2002, the cost had jumped to $9.9 million. By the time of the grand jury report, it stood at $16.9 million.”

“Cooper was told to steer clear of the sheriff’s contract as early as May 9, 2000, in the form of a memo from then-Elk Grove City Attorney Tony Manzanetti. In all, the grand jury found a dozen memos and letters—as well as countless instances of verbal warnings—telling Cooper (as well as Councilman Michael Leary, who was also a sheriff’s deputy) not to vote on any police-contract issues. Yet Cooper repeatedly voted on and discussed the contract, sometimes in an abusive manner.“

“City officials and fellow Council members testified that Mr. Cooper and Mr. Leary created an atmosphere of intimidation and used vulgarity on numerous occasions when the issue of their involvement in the law enforcement services agreement was being discussed,” the grand jury reported. “Council members and City employees observed Mr. Cooper and Mr. Leary engaged in ‘shouting matches’ with the City Attorney over disagreements about conflict of interest interpretations.”

Then-Elk Grove Mayor Dan Briggs (who refused to comment for this story) detailed one of the alleged “shouting matches” in his official response to the grand jury report: “[I]t was Mr. Cooper that repeatedly jabbed his finger at me nearly poking me in the chest,” Briggs wrote. “It was Mr. Cooper that pursued me down the hall behind the Council Chambers and called me a name that was sexually demeaning and belittling. And, it was Mr. Cooper that in my presence repeatedly used sexually denigrating language directed at female persons both present and not present.”

It is no surprise that Jim Cooper has such a low opinion of women. With his history of philandering and hooking up with women behind his girlfriend’s back, Cooper tried to keep it quiet that he was traveling with a woman to Vegas when he was stopped for having an illegal handgun in his carry-on luggage.