Information on James J. Foits — the conervative candidate for Prince William County Sheriff, in the upcoming 3-way Republican Primary to be held on June 12th — can be found at www.fotisforsheriff.com

James J. Fotis for Prince William County Sheriff

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“Sheriff E. Lee Stoffregen, III (D) (1996 – 2003)….tried to make the streets safe by running radar to slow down speeders and aggressive drivers (His activities created, not only redundancy and severe traffic jams, but bad blood between the Sheriff’s office and the County Police and led to Stoffregen’s demand for law enforcement grants for equipment which was needed by the legitimate law enforcement entity, plus his demands for additional funding from the PWC BOS) , had deputies respond to major crimes to get a quicker response to these crimes (performed by deputies who were not trained in those duties, and were only interested in beating the PWC Police to the site), never had a budget close to 7 million dollars (because he had an enormous slush fund and often utilized untrained “Auxiliary Deputies” who rushed to scenes where they had no business being to perform professional law enforcement duties, but primarily utilized those untrained deputies to perform the mandated duties of the Sheriff’s Dept. to pick up the slack).”

Parentheses are mine, of course.

Aside from the danger to public safety in having this enormous crew of untrained “deputies” who had purchased their badges rushing to dangerous situations just to “take over the scene” for the Sheriff (I suspect that there were plenty of “Rambos” in this bunch), how long do you think it would have taken (had Stoffregen been re-elected) for him to double his budget (if not more) in order to “properly train deputies for law enforcement duties” and supply his office with “adequate equipment and additional manpower” to safely pursue that which is under the auspices of the police departments of the County and Cities?

All the arguments that I’ve seen on this thread, and the others, from the pro-Messier crowd want nothing more than to bring back Stoffregen’s methods and agenda. What they seem to have forgotten (or have a vested interest in bringing it back) is that was EXACTLY why Glen Hill so thoroughly trounced Stoffregen, the incumbent, in the previous election…and Glen has been doing exactly what he was elected to do. Sorry folks…your logic is flawed and your candidate is just not going to get traction.

How bout we ‘trade up’ and support Fotis for Sheriff www.fotisforsheriff.com?

Just my .02

maybe you need to read the post fully. I never accussed messier of smoking anything illegal. I said if anyone thinks that he is going to beat Hill then they must be smoking something illegal. You can put it any way you like, he was part of the problem not the solution. In 1972 ( I believe) the citizens of Manassas voted for a professional police department and they recieved it. then Stoffregen comes in and wants to do police work and then cry that he doesn’t have enough man power. Messier was part of this regime and I didn’t see him come out against it or attempt to do anything about it. Now all of a sudden he is a Republican. I was always taught be careful of the company you keep, because that is how people will judge you. I am judging Messier on the company he kept. he should have got out and ran against the Sheriff then.

Meesier might as well be Stoffregen. Like I have said, either he knew what was going on and kept his mouth shut, or he was oblivious, which makes him stupid. Either way, not the best candidate.

As to your comments regarding the spewing of hate, it is you and your Norfolk crew who started the war. You are just crying now because you walked into a buzz-saw. Your candidate went negative first. Amateur mistake. Never go negative, when your negatives are bigger than your opponents.