Dear Liberty Dispatch

Many of us may not know enough about what the current Sheriff is doing to defend him, but regardless of what the new guy has done we remain happy about the drumming the last Sheriff got in the 2008 election.

No one can seriously argue that Sheriff Greg Arthur and his sidekick Chip Fairchild are the best we can do when selecting a sheriff and leadership in our county’s law enforcement. Many of us remember seeing Arthur loading up his boat and headed for the lake on a week day or running around with his latest mistress, Vita Whatshername. And who doesn’t know about Chip Fairchild being morally challenged and him even alleged to have had sex with minors?

So when I hear these people are attacking Liberty County Sheriff Henry Patterson, I am not moved. As a Democrat I voted for Patterson both times. I voted for him when he ran as a Democrat in 2004 and I voted for him again when he ran as a Republican in 2008. And given a choice between Arthur or Fairchild or Patterson, I will vote for Patterson again.

The Arthur/Fairchild fans that have pointed out that Patterson’s spokesman has been lying and greatly embellishing the arrest and convictions of criminals in our county are really pushing it to even bring up the topic. I got so sick of Fairchild and his “news reports” by his buddy at i-dineout that I stopped looking to see who was in the most car wrecks for months! Arthur arrested people who were his political enemies and portrayed that as crime fighting and a benefit to you and me. The fact of the matter is that some of Arthur’s and Fairchild’s time and efforts were as big a waste of taxpayer money and as personal a benefit to them as them chasing women who loved a man in uniform.

I don’t know enough to defend Henry Patterson or his relationship to the Kelly man and the stolen guns case, but I know Arthur seem to be in a mutual admiration society with indicted former County Judge Phil Fitzgerald and indicted former County Commissioner Lee Groce.

I don’t know about all of the Democrats hollering Liberty County’s dislike of Obama rather than their trust in Henry Patterson is why Arthur got beat. All I know is the people who knew Arthur best, the ones that lived down the street from him in his precinct, those people went down to the polls and voted for his opponent. Surely, they knew their next door neighbor was on the ballot!

I agree with Greg Arthur’s neighbors. They joined the rest of the voters in this county and decided he had been sheriff long enough. I don’t know how this sheriff’s race will go, but I do know Liberty County voters are not so hard up we have to go back to the old Arthur/Fairchild days. 

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