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keep the budget at a minimum and get all the funding I could at the state level. “My goal is to provide the most effective Sheriff’s Office and the most secure jail at the least cost to the taxpayers of Rappahannock County. I plan to continue in this manner. 1 take my job seriously. I have given it 110 percent. We have to all keep taxes down.” I
His challenger Gary Settle said the things he is advocating will not cost more money. “We have the tools in place to provide a better Sheriffs Office,” he said. He said there is a problem with teen-aged alcoholism and “an increase in problems and trends with crime involving our youth.” He said there is a small but growing drug problem. “We’re not talking about cost. We’re talking about effort...It has to go above and beyond riding down the road working radar. It’s got to be on the back roads.”
When time came for the candidates for the 31 st House of Delegates District the atmosphere was somewhat more hostile.
Republican Del. Jay Katzen said he had taken a no tax increase pledge, but his opponent had not. He said she opposed the plan to sell bonds to build more prison cells. “Violent
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