Berzerk, megalomaniacal, sheriff brazenly asks voters for return of his complete control of Camden County Board of Commissioners!

Sic semper tyrannis!

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/061708/geo_291579772.shtml Think about it. Imagine what the next four years would be like if Smith were re-elected; Berry were defeated; Rainer retained his seat; and Rhodes retained his seat and, of course, switched over to Smith's side. Taj Mahal of new county jails? You betcha! Brand new and more expensive cars - with unlimited use and "free" gas - for ALL CCSO employees? But, of course. ALL county legislation having to meet Bill Smith's approval? Highly likely. An emboldened Smith installing favorable candidates on city councils? Sure. The man is a sociopathic, megalomaniacal, cancer-run-amok in the body politic of this county. Cut him out on July 15th! Now, from a guy who was there (I was not - knew better from a past WWC forum), a somewhat different view of the event: Talk about a waste of time. The forum should be labeled the "non forum". The questions asked the candidates for Sheriff were not related to any current events. Some three or four questions that were so soft it is impossible to remember what they were. Complaints were made to the lady who asked the questions and she responded that the committee had to approve the questions. That was impossible because, as it was pointed out, the questions were put in a bucket and then taken up front. To be polite, and not nasty, the damn idiot woman was a liar. There was no way a committee had any time to do any thing. It was worst than I had expected. The committee of one told one fellow that the questions were not factual. He told her it was reported in newspapers. She said that she didn't believe what she read. As if she would have understood. Another fellow told her she could have asked if he was being investigated even though every one knew the answer. Again, she said it was not "factual." It was rigged. The audience was given sheets of paper to write out the questions and I could see what she was reading from and the questions were all typed. I never saw a single hand written question. The only thing that was of any interest were two letters about Smith stalking a woman he had been having sex with years back when he was married. One was from an attorney wanting to sue him for getting the lady to spend money to move Jacksonville and the other was from her to Smith's employer Gilman Paper Company outlining the stalking. Those were being passed around. It was so ridiculous I can't begin to explain it. They really should have just passed out power puffs. The punch and cookies were okay. But not worth the trip to have your intelligence insulted. All you could take away from that was a pain in the butt sitting on hard chairs listening to soft punches, if any. "Powder puff" is entirely consistent with my recollection of the WWC forum I attended at the Rec Center a while back. (Jay)

1708 HRS: And now, a follow-on observation from the same fellow as above:

The majority of the questions and time was taken up with the commission candidates. That was for a reason. Smith needs to get his folks in there. I can only tell you that the lateness of the report and the hour caused me to forget the most important and blatant abuse of the forum. About an hour on the commission candidates and no more than 10 minutes on the sheriff's race. The most interest was in the Sheriff and the forum was used to try and change the commission. Smith slipped up and made a reference to just that and it was reported. Sorry for not pointing out the most important point about the way the forum was slanted. It was not because they did not know what they were doing, it was because they did. It was a set up to topple commissioners