Spending a couple of decades in newsrooms in rural Florida and small-town Georgia, I've gotta tell you, the nasty politics in Clay County pales by comparison.  Some of the dirty tricks I've seen played in the name of campaigning, in places like Marianna or Macclenny or Tifton, aren't even fit to be retold in public forums.

Still, we've got some local folks trying to play dirty.  As usual, it's the anti-Beseler faction of campaigners.  The Sheriff had to put out a press release to let folks know that the aggressive, harrassing telephone solicitors telling folks they "work for the Fraternal Order of Police and are collecting money for Sheriff Beseler" aren't connected in any way to him.

Here's a clue, according to CCSO's Mary Justino ... the rude fake Beseler solicitors mispronounce the sheriff's name.  Seems about as effective as the anti-Beseler rants here.

Nasty politics again, or at least Clay County's incompetent version of nasty.

Michael S. Mann

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