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March 10, 2004

Dallas County Sheriff Falls After 20 Years

By Byron LaMasters

Well, this is good and bad news. On one hand, it's good to see corrupt sheriff fall to defeat, but on the other, Sheriff Bowles would have been a much easier opponent to defeat in November. The Dallas Morning News reports:

Danny Chandler defeated Sheriff Jim Bowles in Tuesday's Republican primary, forcing Dallas County's senior lawman into retirement and guaranteeing the county a new sheriff for the first time in 20 years.

Mr. Chandler, the county's director of security and emergency management, will have to wait a month to know his November opponent. A field of four Democratic candidates failed to produce a victor, with Jim Foster and Lupe Valdez headed for a runoff on April 13.

Ruddy-faced from a long day of greeting voters, Mr. Chandler said he was humbled to soundly defeat the incumbent sheriff by more than a 2-1 ratio. He also offered an olive branch to Sheriff Bowles.

[...]

Sheriff Bowles, 75, blamed a continuing investigation of his dealings with a jail vendor for his loss. A special prosecutor has been investigating the sheriff's dealings with businessman Jack Madera for almost five months.

The investigation began after The Dallas Morning News reported last year that Sheriff Bowles accepted thousands of dollars worth of meals and trips from Mr. Madera before awarding him a commissary contract.

The contract gave less money to the Sheriff's Department than other vendors offered. Sheriff Bowles defended his decision, saying Mr. Madera had the only company that could handle the job.


Full Results for both primaries are at Dalco Elections:

Sheriff - Republican Primary:
(WITH 687 OF 687 PRECINCTS COUNTED)

Jim Bowles . . . . . . . . . . 7,547 - 25.03%
Danny Chandler. . . . . . . . . 18,025 - 59.79%
Leonard L. Bueber. . . . . . . . 1,018 - 3.38%
Larry Locke. . . . . . . . . . 3,556 - 11.80%

Sheriff - Democratic Primary:
(WITH 687 OF 687 PRECINCTS COUNTED)

Charles A. Munoz (Chuck) . . . . . 5,766 - 13.03%
Lupe Valdez. . . . . . . . . . 13,867 - 31.34%
Jim Foster . . . . . . . . . . 13,310 - 30.08%
Sam Allen . . . . . . . . . . 11,301 - 25.54%

Lupe Valdez and Jim Foster would both make good sheriff's for Dallas County. We'll see which one emerges in the April run-off.

Posted by Byron LaMasters at March 10, 2004 12:37 PM | TrackBack


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HOT OFF THE WIRE!!!!!!

From the Dallas Morning News online version:

A Dallas County grand jury indicted Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles Wednesday on one count of felony misapplication of fiduciary property.

Denton County Sheriff Weldon Lucas has also been indicted on two counts of felony aggravated perjury.

I guess they wanted to wait until after the primary.

Posted by: WhoMe? at March 10, 2004 05:14 PM
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