Dear Editor,
Regarding the article in the Daily Bee on April 14, 2016, I would ask simply that our current Sheriff Daryl Wheeler address the issue of his undersheriff in a public manner.
First, all deputies are sworn to uphold the law and to protect the citizens of Bonner County. Since, your undersheriff has chosen to ignore the second part of that pledge then isn’t it time to ask him to step down?
When an officer uses his office to defame and try to influence the election process, he has overstepped his bounds. If you are not part of the solution Daryl, then you are a part of the problem. Pretty simple.
Marlene Petersen
Sandpoint
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