The nonpartisan group NoDeals! held a forum for Davidson County sheriff candidates last night, and although you-know-who was not in attendance, his name apparently came up quite often:
Davidson County Sheriff David Grice told an audience gathered for a sheriff’s forum Tuesday night that the negative publicity surrounding the sheriff’s office may return under a Gerald Hege administration.
“I believe we somewhat carried a reputation of being a wild and lawless place with a cowboy and storm trooper sheriff, which we are trying to live down at this time,” Grice said.
“ … That’s not what we need. That’s not the kind of publicity we need. We need positive publicity.”
Interesting that Edgar Shuler — a former deputy who claims Grice fired him after he learned of Shuler’s plan to run against him —- criticized Grice’s publication of drug arrests in schools.
We had a similar issue up here in Guilford County when Sheriff B.J. Barnes was criticized by the school board for issuing press releases publicizing fights at Eastern Guilford. You have to wonder if that will become a political issue.
