On the eve of deadline for the Election Edition 2014, our Lyndi attended the Carrier Mills village board meeting as usual…but what she came back with was anything BUT usual.
A missive had been drafted addressing not only issues with Carrier Mills board trustee Tracy Felty, but also with the state of things as they are, in the opinion of the missive-writer, under current Saline County Sheriff Keith Brown.
The missive-writer wasn’t happy. No one truly is, under most political circumstances and around election time, with the overall status quo; but this writer was a little over the top.
We’d been hearing rumblings that there was going to be an “October surprise” that would hit right before the election, in an attempt to impact the sheriff’s race between the Democrat incumbent Brown and Republican challenger Mike Gribble.
However, whether this is considered that surprise or not remains to be seen. Depends on who the missive-writer is. And we’re pretty sure we know…meaning, there’s no credibility to it.
But that didn’t stop the story from making it to the front page, which is your mid-afternoon Read the Lead, Mystery pre-election bombshell could backfire:
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SALINE CO.— The biggest news that came out of the most recent Carrier Mills village meeting, October 14, was what was not talked about…and the fact that it pertains to the upcoming November elections might be why.
Disclosure has learned that prior to the meeting, each Carrier Mills village board member had received a mysterious packet filled with information about how their police officers were being treated and specifically how the county sheriff’s department was being run.
Oddly enough the unknown informants picked the eve of one of the most hotly-contested sheriff’s races ever to be held in the county to share their information.
In fact, the internal documents in the packages backing up their assertions are dated 2011 and 2013.
This made those who received the packets wonder aloud that if the sheriff’s department was being run so horribly, why wait a year or three to expose such an atrocity…?
The answer is obvious: the sheriff’s race.
Incumbent D. Keith Brown faces a serious challenger in Mike Gribble for Saline County Sheriff.
The accusations being directed at Brown and his chief deputy Ken Clore make it highly unlikely either man has any connection to the election eve bomb dropped at the village meeting by the anonymous party.
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