Posted on 04/06/2023 1:22:02 PM PDT by Twotone
On Monday, March 27, 2023, Anh Colton was arrested in her driveway in Santa Clara County, California.
The reason.
She ran for Sheriff.
Yes. A year earlier, in the June 7, 2022, California primary election, she ran for Sheriff.
You see, Anh has no law enforcement experience according to the District Attorney’s Office.
And there is a law in California which states that if you do not have either experience as an officer or a certificate of qualification, then you can not run for sheriff (California Government Code Section 24004.3).
This law came about after, Michael Hennessey, a private citizen from outside of law enforcement, ran for San Francisco County Sheriff successfully in the 1970s wanting to reform law enforcement. The sheriffs’ union did not like that. It would spell disaster for the profession if a bunch of reformers ended up as sheriffs just because they won election.
I can see where they were coming from. Doctors unions put a limit on who can become a doctor. It is not the most qualified or the most talented who can become a doctor, but it is the one who jumps through the hoops. Lawyers unions put a limit on who can become a lawyer. It is not the brightest, the most ethical, or the most upright who can become a lawyer, but it is the one who jumps through the hoops. These groups both use the force of government to do so, to protect their practice from more qualified outsiders who won’t jump through their chosen hoops — through state medical licensure laws and state bar laws. So law enforcement wanted to do the same.
But did they have any right to do that?
They were, after all, public servants.
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She must be a Republican?
That would be up to the election board to tell her she was not able to run for that seat.
I voted for my first Democrat last year because the Sheriff’s race came down to a man I knew and a woman who has never been a thing but a dispatcher
He won handily in a 72% republican county
It is a matter of law, change the law. Maybe she can claim it is unconstitution, but is it? I’d prefer that anyone should be able to run, let the voters choose.
I can think of worse.
What's that? Different person?
So lack of meeting an Eligibility is now an arrest able crime?
“Doctors unions put a limit on who can become a doctor. It is not the most qualified or the most talented who can become a doctor, but it is the one who jumps through the hoops.”
Yeah, sure. We’ve got all these talented, qualified surgeons languishing on the sidelines because they didn’t ‘jump through hoops’. How do we know they’re talented if they never practiced as a doctor? How did they get qualified pray tell?
COUNTY DEMAND???
“But did they have any right to do that?”
Not if sheriff is designated as an elective office in the California constitution.
“Anh took it a step further. In the face of the District Attorney, she doubled down. She said God certified her to run for Sheriff...”
God bless her, we need more citizens with courage like this.
“So why the arrest?”
They had a checkbox on the form when you filed to run which asked if you met the state mandated qualifications. She checked that box in the affirmative.
It is a crime to lie on that form, apparently.
I heard there’s a law in California that you have to be a moron to run as a Democrat and no one has been arrested yet
Diversitah uber alles.
Yes.
I know nothing of her but I can surmise they see her as an enemy of the state.
Totalitarian California, USA.
I don’t like that this is not hyperbole.
Only if you are not of chosen class
Perhaps this was the only way she could get “standing” to challenge the law ... through a criminal appeal. If she withdraw and brought a civil suit, the judiciary would say she hadn’t been harmed.
To send a message. "Thou shalt not disrespect Government Almighty."
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