Anoka County retiring sheriff named fraternal organization head. What can be expected?

Yahoo News carries a PiPress item, "Outgoing Anoka County sheriff to lead Minnesota Sheriffs’ Assocation [sic]" - by Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press - Sat, December 31, 2022 

Outgoing Anoka County sheriff to lead Minnesota Sheriffs’ Assocation

Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press

Sat, December 31, 2022 at 5:41 AM CST·1 min read

Anoka County Sheriff James Stuart is retiring from his profession in January, having chosen not to run for reelection in 2022 after three terms in office, but he isn’t straying too far from his calling. In March, he’ll begin a new role as executive director of the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association.

Stuart, who served as a U.S. Marine, spent more than 30 years in law enforcement with the sheriff’s office, overseeing through the years the Office of Professional Standards, the SWAT team, the patrol and administrative divisions, among others, before being elected sheriff in 2011.

He also served as president of the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association and vice president of the National Sheriffs’ Association, secretary-treasurer for the Joint Law Enforcement Council, and on the executive committee for the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. He served on the boards of several self-improvement organizations, including Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge, as well as Play to Your Strengths, a nonprofit that offers leadership coaching.

But that omits an important aspect of who the man is - a bigot against the people? 

You decide:

  Full list of sheriffs who have endorsed Schultz: Sheriffs James Stuart (Anoka County), Daniel Guida (Aitkin County), Todd Glander (Becker County), Ernest Beitel (Beltrami County), Troy Heck (Benton County), Tom Burch (Cass County), Mark Empting (Clay County), Scott Goddard (Crow Wing County), Tim Leslie (Dakota County), Scott Rose (Dodge County), Kurt Freitag (Freeborn County), Mark Haberer (Grant County), Victor Williams (Itasca County), Eric Holien (Kandiyohi County), Mark Wilwant (Kittson County), Allen Anderson (Lac qui Parle County), Brett Mason (Le Sueur County), Josh Guenther (Mahnomen County), Tim Langenfeld (McLeod County), Brian Cruze (Meeker County), Shawn Larsen (Morrison County), Jeremy Thorton (Norman County), Kevin Torgerson (Olmsted County), Jeffrey Nelson (Pine County), James Tadman (Polk County), Bob Fletcher (Ramsey County), Mitch Bernstein (Red Lake County), Scott Hable (Renville County), Patrick Nienaber (Sibley County), Steve Soyka (Stearns County), Jason Dingman (Stevens County), Michael Carr (Wadena County), Brad Milbrath (Wasceca County), Dan Starry (Washington County), and Sean Deringer (Wright County), Bill Flaten (Yellow Medicine County), and Rich Stanek (Hennepin County (2006 – 2018)).

Assholes. Remember what crap they wanted US in Minnesota subjected to as Attorney General. 

Yet, be proud of urban and suburban voters who had the brains and judgment to reelect an experienced and effective noteworthy gentleman over an abrasive, ambitious, and aggressive inexperienced hedge fund lawyer who'd never tried a case in court (but who stroked the collective ego of a collective of cops and sheriffs whereas Ellison had care for, and approval of, the people facing cops and sheriffs). 

That is, the public having occasional contact, and those whose daily living brought them into regular contact with cops and sheriffs:

The county attorneys backing Ellison are Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi, Anoka County Attorney Tony Palumbo, Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem, Cook County Attorney Molly Hicken, Winona County Attorney Karin Sonneman, Stevens County Attorney Aaron Jordan, McLeod County Attorney Michael Junge and Lake of the Woods County Attorney Jim Austad.

"It is our honor at the Attorney General's Office to be your colleague, to stand with you," Ellison said to the county attorneys endorsing him during a news conference at the State Capitol on Tuesday. "We want to run to you to help because we know about your concern for the victims and the people who are suffering."

A large scale disaster was averted by people with more brains than biases. 

As to what can be expected of Stuart? More of the same. Perhaps with Schultz in the dustbin, but with another Wardlow/Schultz Republican clone next time, where Wardlow/Schultz had greatly overlapping law-and-order honchos for supporters and advisors, where it was unclear who'd be calling the shots.

 

UPDATE: There was race baiting in the Schultz campaign. Schultz was urged to repudiate a particular advertisement. And did not.

Readers can decide whether Schultz, himself, crossed a line into racial antagonism in online video like this or this. (The latter item was produced and promoted by the campaign itself, early in things, and if a line was not crossed, a boundary was willfully approached). 

The video images used in conjunction with narration clearly were not about any issues or hopes in rural Minnesota. It was fear and jealously mongering for there. The aim was to influence a category of people, and not the best of people, against urban largely black people dealing with policing overreach and a pattern of inordinate use of police force. These are not a big thing in white rural Minnesota, in terms of events. But regarding divisive and jealous attitude reinforcement in the hustings, Schultz clearly intended to ring that bell. 

Early and often.