Oh for petes sake.

I guess if you don't have much of a campaign to be Sheriff you can sit here and take pot shots at someone and imply something ugly. Running for Sheriff has to mean more than having a platform of attacking qualified people. Save the department has either got to be a punch drunk pugilist or a wishy-washy, never around the office, look out for myself guy.

For the most part, most people at the Sheriff's Office, have a neutral opinion of Lieutenant Colonel Hannah and his wife. Between the two of them, no one can ever point to anything either has ever done that is unethical, immoral, or inappropriate.

But, as is the case with these blogs, anyone can say anything they want, and unless its slanderous, it get printed.

Come on now, savethedepartment, don't start out crawling through the mud, if you have an issue, bring it out. Wait I've got it, you realize you don't have a chance to win, so this is how you hope to gather attention for yourself (or your canidate).

From the outside looking in this is what the average citizen wants in a sheriff, or any officer.

We want someone tough on crime!

We don't want someone who "grandstands" in front of cameras.(we are sick to death of Chief Murray luring sex offenders here, so that my tax dollar can pay for their jail time. Did we really need to bait that last homeless jobless idiot here??)

We want someone who is concerned for the taxpayers safety, even if that means that some of them get tickets.(that also means patroling neighborhoods, not just the buisness section, don't we all pay taxes?)

We like being known as Fayettenam

We want someone who will be more like the "tent sheriff" in Arizona.(if you are paying more than .40cts. a day per prisoner to feed them, you are wasting my tax dollar, and I don't appreciate it! Criminals aren't worth good food, snap out of it!)

We want a sheriff that criminals and the satanic kids are afraid of.

From the outside looking in it looks like Hannah has been just doing his job keeping us safe. His wife Lt. Hannah could find a job as a police chief somewhere. I have never met either of the Hannahs but I have heard nothing but good things about them.

When speaking to a good friend of mine who is a Sheriff's Deputy, I asked him if he ever perused the postings on this website. He said he reads them frequently, but is not supposed to post any comments due to his job. I was just curious if this applied to all of you guys, or if he was misunderstood. In any event, who would YOU like to see run for sheriff? And do you support our current one?

I'm sure Hannah has thought about this issue and I'm sure there is a reasonable solution to it, after all ANYONE who knows him knows that he is a reasonable person, certainly not prone to rash or marginally legal decisions attributable to those you have named here. This is issue that can work it's self out long before any election takes place. The real issue is whether or not you can continue to raise money for your own campaign while you are on duty and visiting around on the north end of the county.......

I find this hard to think is true. If this Colonel fellow is that dumb to say that, he of course will never be elected.
Better get a second source!