Milwaukee Co. residents: A strong candidate for sheriff

[dragonlady]

In case you haven't yet heard about our candidate to replace David Clarke as sheriff in Milwaukee County, check out Lt. Chris Moews, a homicide detective with the Milwaukee Police Department. He's running an energetic and savvy campaign. I've heard him speak several times and was impressed each time. Among his many endorsements are the deputy sheriffs' union, Milwaukee Democratic Party, and Russ Feingold!

Here's why we desperately need a new sheriff in town:

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has played games with voters since being appointed to the position by former Republican Gov. Scott McCallum. While Clarke campaigns as a Democrat, he aligns himself with conservatives like President Bush, Charlie Sykes, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker—even the tea party crowd, which has welcomed him as a speaker on two occasions. In keeping with his anti-government philosophy, Clarke has vastly shrunk his department—from 692 sworn deputies to 352—while dismantling the witness protection program, the metro drug unit, the fraud investigation unit, the truancy abatement program and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. At the same time, Clarke’s mismanagement of the department has led to lawsuits that have cost the county tens of thousands of dollars.

http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-11776-lsi-want-to-take-the-politics-out-of-the-sheriffrss-departmentrs.html

It's worth reading the whole article. Also see the Moews website: http://www.moewsforsheriff.com/

The primary is September 14. Please vote for Moews then, and it wouldn't hurt to send him a few bucks so he can get his message on television.

We really need this guy as our new sheriff.

[midnight]

1. Didn't realize sheriff clark was a Dem.? I'm not in Milwaukee

Co. though. I wonder how sheriff Clark likes the carry and conceal push by the Republicans? I know the Milwaukee Chief of Police doesn't think it is too good an idea.

[dragonlady]

2. Clarke is 100% DINO

He feels he couldn't be elected in Milwaukee County without that "D" so he files as a Democrat (there's nothing the party can do about that). As the article says, he has been very cozy with the Republicans. He has been personally invited to join the Democratic Party but never did.

[dragonlady]

3. Clarke's antiunion rant

The Journal-Sentinel reported yesterday the latest example of Sheriff Clarke's leadership style, displayed during what he called a "counseling session" with one of his officers.

"Nothing discussed in my meeting with Sheriff Clarke had anything to do with my duties as a sergeant," said Sgt. Rich Graber, the vice president of the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association. "It was all about me as a union official. So for (them) to say it was employee counseling is absolutely ridiculous." . . .

Graber - whose group often is critical of Clarke - describes it more as an expletive-filled, anti-union rant. During the two-hour session, Graber said, Clarke called him a "terrorist" to the agency, a "cancer" and a whole variety of expletives. Graber's written and verbal summaries of the get-together have the second-term sheriff using the F-bomb again and again. He used it as a noun, verb and an adjective, the union official said. Clarke initially was upset that Graber wouldn't let the sheriff ignore the contract when selecting deputies to work mandatory OT monitoring the site after the accident. But the conversation went far beyond that to host of other complaints, Graber said. . . .

Graber said the union plans to file a complaint with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commissions alleging that Clarke was trying to retaliate against and intimidate a union official with the "counseling session." . . .

"I don't give a (expletive) about your contract," the sheriff said, according to the union official. "I have a job to do, and I'm going to do it how I want." . . .

In an interview last week, Graber said he didn't raise the issue the day of the accident because everyone realized the severity of the situation. But he said he brought it up the next day because some deputies were working double shifts and then going back to the County Correctional Facility-South, formerly the House of Correction, after only five hours' rest. Clarke asserted that deputies should expect to work more than eight hours a day, Graber quoted him as saying. The 53-year-old sheriff said he had been inconvenienced for 32 years and missed many family functions as a result.

According to Graber, his boss accused the sergeant of "(expletive) me in my (expletive)" for not helping him on a host of issues, including his effort to privatize inmate transportation. "The public loves me, and they hate public (employee) unions," Clarke supposedly said to Graber, according to the sergeant. "You just don't get it."

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/100234564.html

In contrast, Chris Moews understands from involvement with his union that to ignore the contract just throws away taxpayers' money in fighting grievances that are sure to be upheld. His style of leadership would be refreshingly rational after Clarke's.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Moews (pronounced Mays) will make an excellent sheriff.

Unlike Clarke (pronounced doofus), who makes an excellent clown.

NGU.

[dragonlady]

5. We have received THREE mailers from Clarke so far

He and his right-wing supporters are scared. I truly think there is a chance to win this one for Moews.

NGU indeed.