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Sheriff is pandering

Sat., March 18, 2017

I’m neither Democrat nor Republican, but Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich need not Obama-bash to get my vote. He himself would be and has been the first to demand that any rotten officer should go, and that’s all President Obama or anyone else with any brains has said. President Obama eulogized tragically slain officers, never denigrated the dangers and sacrifices officers face. Why blame him for the actions of the crazy few? His only crime was being a black president.

Ozzie is better than this last speech indicates, I hope. That was pandering to the Obama-is-always-wrong base; we don’t need that right now.

Jackie McCowen-Rose

Spokane

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