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WOW! bigbrother, Ryan went to high school...what a wonderful accomplishment.  It surely seperates him from...wait, no one since most people go to high school.  Your post only proves what I've been saying which is that Ryan is under-educated.  He got where he's at through frienships, not accomplishments.  He is just another political hack, a self-perpetuating "good ole boy" who can't even define "professionalism."  He says it, because it sounds good on TV ads, he just doesn't know what it is.

Since you obviously know the guy, why not shoot down my argument by asking him (since he lacks the courage to do it himself) just what he means by his statement that the MCSO is professional?  What makes it professional?  Compare it to another law enforcment agency that's not professional?  Is it professional because he says so or because one or two of the Ryan lemmings carry a briefcase now and again?  If it's so professional, whay doesn't it subscribe to the suggestions of the National Sheriff's Association?  Is it becsue the high school educated folks can't grasp the importance of the affiliation tot he national organization or is it because the collectively lack the competence to do so?  Maybe while you at it you can ask him why the MCSO is so top heavy?  Is it to see how many tax dollars they can watse on their ploitical cronies? 

I'll wait, for your no answer answer.

Well, I'm not BB, but I am able to read and I read that Ryan graduated from ILEA - law enforcement academy. I think that is tad more revealing than 'just graduating from high school' and having an eduation in the field in which you work does put a person in the professional category.

I see, iamwatching, that you chose not to challenge Ryan's attendance at Mt. Mercy College. The last I looked, that is one of the measures that we as a society use to assess folks under the auspices of "professional" in any other career. Is that not good enough for you? Maybe they should fire all Muscatine's corporate leaders because they too attended college?

Having said that...I think your argument has become moot, now. Why not just vote against the guy for what ever hard-on reason you have against him.

As for your last set of questions in your last paragraph...better direct those to the board of supervisors who staff the department by authorization and funding. They approve the budget and staffing.

Ryan is undereducated, huh? Well then, you need be better calling for the firing of Wade and White! And, please....name me one past Muscatine sheriff that attended college. I do believe the word "professionalism" defines itself.

 "If it's so professional, whay(sic) doesn't it subscribe to the suggestions of the National Sheriff's Association?"  Please, imwatching; describe for us all how that, in YOUR opinion, makes for professionalism. I have seen and dealt with national entities before. Being a national entity or any part of one,  does not necessarily make one professional.

Attending is NOT graduating.  Attending the Iowa Law Enforcment Academy does what?  Make him equal with about 25,000 other more educated law enforcment officers in Iowa?  Please.

Wade and especiallyWhite are also under-educated and incapable.  Professionalism does not define itself and Ryan wouldn't know it if it bit him on the A$$.  Ignoring the National Sheriff's Associations guidelines just shows that the MCSO is unable to keep up witht he rest of the country because it prefers remainingin the 1970's and is afraid of outside circumspection because their ineptness would be blatently clear.  If the Supervisors had half a braint hey would call for a management study of the MSCO whih would illustrate how poorly it is managed and organized.  They won't because it would embarass all of them and make them look bad in the eyes of their constituents for wasting tax dollars on an obvious inept organization.

In a way I hope Ryan does get elected and then we can track the "profesionalization" that will occur under his tenure.  Because in the end he will be just one more "good ole boy" and will be an abject failure except to the other "good ole boys" and political hacks.