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Sheriff's news release irks Democrats
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Sep 17, 2004 08:40am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Friday, September 17, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A day after winning the Republican primary for the 8th Congressional District, King County Sheriff Dave Reichert helped chase down a stolen car.
It wasn't until the Sheriff's Office sent out a news release about the chase and subsequent arrests, mentioning it happened a day after "his big win in the primaries," that Democrats started complaining.
"It's unbelievable," Kirstin Brost, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said yesterday. "This is not an appropriate use of his office. This is using his official office to do campaign activity."
Sgt. John Urquhart, the Sheriff's Office spokesman, defended the news release, saying: "This is pure police business. Nothing more than that. We would've done it whether he was running for office or not."
The car chase happened Wednesday afternoon when Reichert was off-duty, driving home his unmarked patrol car in a neighborhood near Auburn. After seeing a car driving recklessly, the sheriff flashed his lights, sounded his siren and tried to pull it over, but it sped off.
Reichert chased the car for a couple of minutes, then discontinued the chase because the motorist was driving too erratically.
Chris Vance, chairman of the state Republican Party, chuckled when he heard the Democratic Party was consulting its lawyers about whether to file an ethics complaint. |
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