Sheriff's election

My bad.

Nice try, cop.

We have a challenger but I think the incumbent is pretty safe. Generally it takes a scandal or money problems to unseat a sheriff.

ETA, nevermind, you were talking about an open race.

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Houma has 4 or 5 running but one is the clear lead

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And who do you think that is?

Who do you think it is?

St. Tammany has a likely one term Sheriff about to lose his re election. Unheard of in LA. Randy Smith has really done a shite job. Tim Lentz is going to smoke that arse.

Baton Rouge may actually see a tight race this year. Sid is running the office into the ground money wise and some big power brokers are going to put a candidate up against him. The candidate is picked but no one knows who it is yet. Just that it will happen.

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How many of you baws have a sheriff leaving office and already have a heated race going? It's getting rough in North La for several parishes. As a current deputy I am ready for this nightmare to end. Not knowing if you'll be gainfully employed come January is not a cool feeling. Still 5 more months.

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You’re a deputy and don’t know that you wouldn’t be unemployed until July 1st?

I drove through St Martinville last week and I bet I saw 500 signs for sheriff along the road.

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Not knowing if you'll be gainfully employed come January is not a cool feeling. Still 5 more months.

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If you are doing your job competently, have not overtly endorsed or campaigned for someone and are not effectively a political appointee, you’ll likely be fine unless you’re part of a very small sheriff’s department.

Are you politically connected? If that was you’re avenue into the department, who that connection is will be possibly important. If they are powerful enough, you’re probably safe unless the new sheriff is looking to make a point..


Bottom line, odds are, you’re safe if you do you’re job without incident. FTR, my late step father was a deputy in Lafayette Parish and went through this. He got his job because he personally knew the sheriff though he had be a LEO prior in another part of the state. Lafayette Parish has a large sheriff’s department so there is enough turnover that they don’t have to fire people to give their friends a job. By that time he was working warrants, which is typically a sunset job, but almost no one was let go when the new sheriff took office. He even kept folks who actively campaigned against him and at least one guy who ran against him.

Good luck, baw.