Several years ago, when I was serving as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s legislative liaison to Georgia’s General Assembly, several members of the Georgia Sheriff’s Association and other state constitutional officers backed an attempt to have the Office of Sheriff be a non-partisan Constitutional Office. This would require a statewide general act that would add the post to an exemption list in the nonpartisan act of the state election code. Then each county individually would have to ask its state legislators to introduce a local act to change the posts to nonpartisan for its local elections and have that resolution pass the Georgia General Assembly. Over the years, quite a few Georgia sheriffs have expressed their desire to drop party affiliations.

I concur; your Sheriff should be completely neutral insofar as political parties are concerned. I have always voted more for the person than along party lines and I have faith that citizens have the capacity to make the right decisions, especially for local candidates. In many Georgia counties, members of the general assembly and executive branch candidates openly solicit endorsements from local sheriffs.

This may be why the Office of Sheriff in Georgia has remained a partisan office. That leaves a candidate for sheriff in the position of having to declare a political party based on the political demographics of where one is seeking office or their personal policy affiliation.

For these reasons, I am running as a Republican candidate.

But, regardless of your national political party or if you do not affiliate with any political party, I am running to be your sheriff. I have never and will not base any decision of doing what is right, what is legal, moral, and ethical based on political party or politics in general. As a U.S. Army Officer and Special Agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for thirty-four years I have remained apolitical and will always commit to supporting our Constitution and our citizens.