Muscatine

Only six days left until election day.  I am asking everyone to get out and vote for CJ Ryan republican candidate for Sheriff.  Ryan is a good man and a very dedicated and honest man that has worked in Law Enforcement for almost 20 years. He has the experience and endorsements of the majority of all Law Enforcement in the area.  It says a lot when the current Sheriff Greg Orr, County Attorney Gary Allison, the Muscatine Police Officer Union, and the majority of the employees of the Sheriff's Office are supporting Ryan for Sheriff.

Ryan won the Republican nomination by a very large margin. 

I ask everyone to to vote for Ryan.

I believe that would be "for more than 20 years". He also has my support.

While it's certainly acceptable to run as an independent, Wade will only split the vote. The man should honor the primary election system and accept that he lost. He sort of slaps our primary election system in the face by doing this. Demonstrates a certain greediness that his father, a former deputy, would have issues with.

Ryan is about as capable as being Sheriff as they guy who just picked up my trash.  Give us a break.  All the guy (as well as that White person) has going for him is the length of his employment.  Somehow some people see a connection about being in a job for a long time and being qualified to be the boss.  That may make you old, but it doeesn't make you qualified.  Since neither Ryan or White have ever competed against anyone for their current positions, the voting public has no way of knowing if they have their job because they're competent or because they are buddies with Orr.  Most people with a brain realize that both of them are nothing more than products of political patronage.

I don't know Wade, but at least he's intelligent enough to publicly say that the Sheriif' Office is in dire need to a re-organization, something that the other two can't even spell let alone realize the need for it.  Ryan keeps saying in the nauseating TV ad that the Sheriff's Dept. is "professional."  Really?  What does that mean, who says so, Ryan?  Just because one or two of them carry briefcases that doesn't mean they are professional.  In order to be considered professionals they would have to have educational standards way beyond what they now require as well as a set of regulations which require some outside oversight of the operation, much like other professions have.  I think they say it just because they think it makes them sound like they know what they're talking about. 

Sounds like imwatching is a bit dissatisfied with the current political system in the state of Iowa. The only qualifications to be sheriff is that you are elected and that you must be certified by the Iowa law Enforcement Academy.

To denigrate the candidates because you don't like the system just does not seem too fair. But it is the same system that allows Wade to run again; even though the voting public told him no in the fair fight that was the primary election. It comes to a matter of trust.

For Wade to keep regurgitating the "reorganization" word without saying what he would do is far removed from any sense of "professional". He does not have a clue.

And, you are wrong on another point. Ryan took and passed promotional exams that anyone else qualified for, could also take. To say he never competed is an untruth. Ryan was in his position before Orr ever became sheriff. White, however, was appointed chief deputy to serve at the pleasure of the sheriff with zero competition.