Reply #4: I want hired sheriffs and prosecutors.

[jmowreader]

If Lupe Valdez is as good as you say, let her apply for the job. Most if not all of the initial cadre of hired sheriffs would be the incumbent sheriffs anyway; the county commissioners or whoever was in charge of hiring sheriffs would undoubtedly choose to stick with the sheriff they had, unless said sheriff was totally worthless.

Let me ask you a simple question: Do you think that if the prosecutor in Corsicana, Texas, would have thought to himself "is this man actually guilty? Why am I listening to 'arson experts' whose cases routinely get thrown out on appeal?" instead of "if I portray this man as someone who killed his kids because they were interfering with his selfish personal whims, I can get an easy murder conviction," Cameron Todd Willingham's life would have ended strapped to a gurney in Huntsville?