You can bet that if the shoe were on the other foot, the Tea Party people would already be in jail awaiting charges, or on their way to prison.
The fact that these crimes were committed by a so-called "law enforcement official" makes them an order of magnitude worse. It's time for the town to dismiss this jackass, and for the DA to bring charges appropriate to the crimes.
So a local sheriff who claims he “used to be kind of a Republican” [yeah, right,] engages in identity theft and then commits obstruction of justice by lying to investigators, but the local prosecutors are “still considering whether to file charges.”
He used to be kind of republican until he “took a walk on the wild side.”