Sheriff Succinctly Sums up Problems With Democrat 'Solutions' -- and Why He's Leaving the Party
By Susie Moore | Jun 24, 2021 11:00 AM ET
Earlier this month, my colleague Brandon Morse brought you the story of several sheriffs who’d announced they were leaving the Democratic Party. As Brandon explained:
Democrats have lost yet another Sheriff to the Republican party over the left’s treatment of police and the effective abandonment of officers all over the country to the whims of left-leaning mobs and opportunistic politicians who shout “defund the police” in the streets, putting officers and communities in danger.
According to WJHL-TV, Virginia Sheriff Chip Shuler of Smyth County trashed his Democrat Party membership and filed to join the Republican Party. Democrats shouldn’t be surprised by this turn of events since, as Shuler explained, this came as a result of them turning their back on him and his officers, not the other way around.
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As Fox News pointed out, Shuler is hardly the first Sheriff to leave the Democrat party. He joins John McClanahan of Buchanan County and Brian Hieatt of Tazewell County, both of whom left in 2020. Hieatt, in particular, came down hard on the “defund the police” movement, noting that the rising crime that resulted from the movement’s success was exactly what the left purchased with it.
Last week, another sheriff joined their ranks — this one from Cascade County, in Montana. In a post to his Facebook page, Sheriff Jesse Slaughter, who first won the office in 2018, read from a written statement, laying out his concerns about Democrat Party leadership — and their unresponsiveness to concerns he’d brought to them — and his reasons for changing his party affiliation to Republican for the upcoming 2022 election.
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