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Cincinnatis Hamilton County is likely to elect their first openly gay sheriff this Novembera former deputy who was fired by the current sheriff, who attended a Trump rally in 2016.
Charmaine McGuffey, who has won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff, has the kind of storied career in law enforcement youd hope for in a candidate. She also has the honor of having been fired for being a lesbian who tried to get Hamiltons current sheriff to act on systemic misconduct against women.
The current sheriff and I got into a pretty serious disagreement about the practice of him not holding officers accountable for use of force and harassment of women, female officers, and female inmates, McGuffey told LGBTQ Nation.
She took her time away to come to the conclusion that she could do a better job than the guy who fired her. Voters agree: in the Democratic primary last month, McGuffey beat him for this Novembers nomination in a landslide.
https://www.frontpagelive.com/2020/05/01/cincinnatis-sheriff-fired-his-lesbian-deputy-so-she-ran-for-his-job-and-just-crushed-him/
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Seems to be changing color.
Norbert
(6,040 posts)Hamilton County is quite blue.
All 3 County Commissioners are Dems as are most of the county offices. True that Green and Colerain Townships in the west are red but places like Pleasant Ridge and Oakley are very blue.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Cincinnati and all down the Ohio river Counties voted for Obama. Wiping out 100 years of red. Warren is still red.
SunSeeker
(51,637 posts)Hekate
(90,769 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)Every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
gab13by13
(21,379 posts)Wisconsin elects a justice who Trump campaigned against.
Cincinnati votes out a Trumper. That's Wisconsin and Ohio folks.
Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I love it! I don't win many fights against anti-lesbian/anti-gay types where I live. So, seeing this warms my heart. I hope she wins.