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It's official
Nathan "Bud" York of Warrensburg has announced his candidacy for the office of Warren County sheriff, challenging incumbent Larry Cleveland of Queensbury.
We believe that Cleveland's days in his "suite" at the $24 million Taj Mahal of a public safety building are numbered.
York, 55, recently retired from the New York State Police after a 30-year career but apparently isn't yet ready to leave law enforcement.
York's got it all over Cleveland in terms of experience. He's been in the trenches, working for a number of years as a road patrol officer in the northern part of the county before becoming an investigator in the state police's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and in the Major Crimes Unit. Most recently he's been the senior investigator at the Queensbury SP station.
Cleveland worked as a patrol officer with the Queensbury Police Department before becoming a patrol officer with the sheriff's department. Bud York hasn't caused the death of anyone with a patrol car, unlike Cleveland. Cleveland obligated the county to so much in payouts due to his accidents that the county's insurance carrier refused to insure the county unless the county stopped Cleveland from operating county vehicles for a time during the 1980s.
There's a time for everything and it's long overdue that Larry Cleveland be replaced as sheriff of Warren County.
York will open his campaign headquarters on Wait St. in Glens Falls. Wonder how long it will take Cleveland to set up a surveillance of the place so he can keep tabs on who comes and goes and who's supporting York.
York has said that that he will seek the Republican, Conservative and Independent party lines. We think that Cleveland is going to be hard pressed to snag a Republican Party endorsement this time around and we personally don't believe that party chairman Mike Grasso has any clue how serious a liability that Cleveland has become.
The 15-member campaign committee announced by York certainly indicates that Cleveland may have some serious problems in the Republican circles as well as in the business sector and public service arena.
John Palermo of Warrensburg is chairman of the York for sheriff committee with Tom Burhoe listed as treasurer. Other members are Jack Gamble, former Glens Falls police chief Richard Carey, Kathleen Cirelli, Mark David, Dr. Sandy DeSantis, Richard Eggleston, Dick Frasier, Mike Guglielmoni, Doug Kenyon, Joseph R. Murphy, Daniel Roberts, Clint Rumrill and Paul Spinelli.
Cleveland has tried unsuccessfully for years to take over the Glens Falls Police Department in his quest for total dictatorship of the county. Not only has there long been a strained relationship between the sheriff's department and the state police because of Cleveland and some of his policies, but with the Glens Falls PD as well.
York has announced he will hold a press conference Saturday at noon at the county municipal center. 3-09-07
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