Ethics Commission Approves Legal Fund For Embattled Oregon Sheriff

[struggle4progress]

by Ryan Haas OPB | April 8, 2016 5:25 p.m. | Updated: April 8, 2016 6:58 p.m.

... The Oregon Government Ethics Commission ruled Friday that Palmer can establish the legal defense fund to pay attorneys and other associated costs.

Palmer could potentially lose his law enforcement license or even face criminal charges because of his alleged involvement with Ammon Bundy and other militants who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for 41 days.

Palmer met with some of the key figures of the occupation over lunch in John Day in January along with a small group of local residents, but said he didn’t know three of the occupiers would be there.

After the occupation ended, state officials received 10 complaints against Palmer. Most of those complaints allege the Grant County sheriff supported Bundy and the occupiers, thus threatening public safety in Harney County. But some of them also alleged Palmer grants concealed weapon permits at a rate much higher than rural Oregon counties with similar populations ...

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/oregon-sheriff-glenn-palmer-legal-fund/

[Jim Beard]

1. The guy could have really been a turd during the occupation by siding with the

thugs but he did not. Leave him alone.

[sense]

2. Right....

[Whiskeytide]

3. I think you might be...

... confusing Grant County Sheriff Palmer (asshole who did side with the snackless occupiers) and Harney County Sheriff Ward who was a pretty stabilizing guy throughout the occupation.

[Jim Beard]

4. Yeah, I see it now

a hazzard of thinking I know what I am reading without really reading all of it. Thanks.