This comes from a tainted source, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is terribly slanted, but it does contais some information about the Malheur standoff and the sheriff involved which might be of interest.
"The day after a 41-day antigovernment standoff ended last week at an Oregon wildlife refuge, former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack rode into rural Harney County and boldly claimed to have a full understanding of the militia takeover of a national wildlife refuge.
Without mentioning Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward by name, referring to him as “the local sheriff,” Mack bluntly accused the lawman of failing to do his job by refusing to be an “interposer” between “overly aggressive and corrupt” federal officials and local ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond, who were sent to prison for setting fire to public land.
Mack heads the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), a states’ rights group that holds county sheriffs to be the highest constitutionally recognized law enforcement officials in the land, capable of standing in the way of federal law enforcement.
“It’s obvious he did not do his job,” Mack said of the Ward, who has received high praise from the FBI and many county residents for his response to the antigovernment occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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Wearing a necktie patterned after the American flag, Mack spoke Friday evening to a crowd of a couple hundred county residents –– many of them cowboys with mud on their boots and dipping pinches of chewing tobacco, who rose from their metal folding chairs in the county fairgrounds to greet Mack as if he were a political candidate. [side note: isn't that paragraph simply a piece of work?]
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Sheriff Ward, a modest-sounding man who appeared on the brink of tears in talking about the end of the standoff last Thursday, wasn’t in attendance at the county fairgrounds for Mack’s speech, but in a back row, there was Alan Johnson. Running as a CSPOA-sanctioned candidate against Ward, Johnson was beaming with pride as he got Mack’s endorsement in what briefly, at least, sounded like a political rally.
The Johnson vs. Ward sheriff’s race in Harney County Oregon -- to be decided in the November election -- seems to have the making of a political hangover from the Malheur standoff, likely keeping alive much of the bitter divisiveness that has divided the sprawling eastern Oregon community. Mack told the crowd he will be watching and supporting Johnson."
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https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/02/16/%E2%80%98constitutional-sheriff%E2%80%99-richard-mack-hoping-capitalize-oregon-standoff 
