Tales from the Trenches
Monday, January 19th, 2009By Dave La Montaine
During a recent conversation between Executive Director Orlowski and I, we were lamenting the lack of interest of Deputy Sheriff’s in politics. I had previously discussed the situation we had in Monroe County, and Larry asked me to tell the story.
Well Friends, I do believe it is a story worth telling. It has been over three years now sense the Monroe County Deputy Sheriff’s Association was forced to “go to war” to save jobs for Deputy Sheriff’s. At the time, our association had an on again off again political relationship with some local politicians. We had three County Commissioner’s, out of 9 who were friendly to our needs. The then Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, in an unprecedented move basically demanded millions of dollars in budget cuts from the Sheriff. The Sheriff advised that he would have to cut personal in order to meet the unrealistic demands of the Chairman.
