Darrell Warren Laughing All The Way To The Polls On Tuesday

Present acting Gloucester County Sheriff, Darrell Warren was overheard in a local place laughing with his friends about his upcoming election.  Mr Warren does not really have any real threat contenders running against him in this campaign.

  Mr Warren's only contender is Clarence Bowser who has run in past elections and at best has only managed to collect about 5% of any of the votes.  We find it very interesting that Darrell Warren is going for the most part uncontested in this non race, race.  In the past, there have been a number of people who have stepped up and shown interest in the Sheriff's position.  The contest in the past however was against Steve Gentry.  Last year Steve Gentry stepped down from the position right after just having won the election.

 It was a very strange move for someone who had just won an election to all of a sudden step down.  Inside word as to the real reasons are shocking, however, we will not reveal what we know on this at this time.  We have nothing against Darrell Warren as we do not even know the guy.  We just find this race at this point and time to be highly unusual.  If you do not like either choice, write in for someone else instead of leaving the option blank.  Let your vote count.

Sheriff Steve Gentry Steps Down And The Real Reason Is?

As of Friday this past week, Sheriff Steve Gentry stepped down from his recently elected position to spend more time with his family. Well anyone who looks at the facts knows that you do not spend a great deal of time and energy as well as those who invested in getting you re elected into your post and then just step down a few months later. The official reason reported in the papers is because Mr Gentry wants to spend more time with his family. The unofficial reason that has already been made public is sexual harassment or sexual misconduct. I will not defend that but I do question it.

I have a number of years of experience dealing in that area of law. From what I have seen in the public posts about this issue, this is something that has been going on for a long time. Inexcusable as it may be, the legal precedence in this type of situation where sexual harassment has been going on for an extended period is hard if not near impossible to prosecute. The reason as I have seen in the past is because a precedent was set and no early charges were filed. Even where multiple charges are filed through a number of employees, if it has been going on for some time, the precedence has been set. Again, I am not defending what he did if he is in fact guilty of this.

What I am saying however, that the chances of the charges actually going all the way through are not in favor of those making the charges. I am not blaming them for making them either mind you. I just do not see sheriff Gentry stepping down because of these charges. I think it might be some other reason. What that reason is I do not know at this time. But I do know that we are now looking at an all new election for sheriff. It takes a very special kind of individual to fill those shoes. It's a rare person who has the stamina both physically and mentally to handle such a job. You have to play politics at the local, state and federal level. Then you have to deal with all the issues in and around the county. Everything from those who want to argue a ticket to the street criminal and everything in between.

Either way, things are rather interesting to watch right now. This should prove to be an interesting year.

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