Time for a change

I am writing this letter in regards to the upcoming sheriff's election in Phillips County. I don't think we realized how good we had it when we had Leroy Stephen as our sheriff. I have had the opportunity to work for both Sheriff Stephen and Sheriff Wisinger. I feel like there was a lot more being done about the local drug problems and usage under the Stephen administration.

When Mr. Stephen was the sheriff, we executed multiple major drug search warrants each year; there haven't been any major drug search warrants conducted since Wisinger took office. This was supposedly Undersheriff Harm's specialty, but where are the results? There have been very few drug busts in the Wisinger administration, and most of those were merely people passing through headed to major cities and were caught by the hardworking deputies and the Highway Patrol. It is great that we caught them, but there seems to have been very little effort put into the local users and distributors. Thankfully, we have a good group of hardworking deputies who do a great job of trying to stop the underage drinking and get some of the drugs off of the streets due to their patrolling.

During the Stephen administration there were many very successful investigations that were conducted to stop the local sources that were bringing the drugs here and distributing them here. Just think what can be done if we put Leroy Stephen back in office with a good undersheriff, and the great group of deputies that we have. It is time we make a change in the administrative area of our sheriff's department. It is time we vote Leroy Stephen in as our sheriff.

Nathan Mathes

Phillipsburg