Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Whittington is a wild card in Bossier Sheriff's race

Julian Whittington, former Chief Criminal Deputy with the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department, resigned last month.  Speculation was rampant that he would run for sheriff against incumbent Larry Deen.
Former Deputy Sheriff Mike McConnell has already thrown his hat into the ring. 
We have been able to confirm from a couple of very reliable sources that Whittington is going to run. 
Deju Vu all over again?
The question that is being asked is whether or not a former deputy can unseat a powerful sitting sheriff.
Ask Larry Deen.
In 1987 he took 62% of the vote against his former boss, Vol Dooley.
In addition, I hear that Whittington has some very influential support lining up in his corner.
Don't misunderstand, Larry Deen still has a lot of very solid support, but he is not invincible.
This promises to be a very interesting election year.

25 comments:

  1. Wow... cousin on cousin. I'm buying popcorn and candy for this one. Those two will bring out all the skeletons on each other.

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  2. Battle at Rocky Mount!!

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  3. This will be a good race. New Bossier Police Chief, New Bossier Fire Chief, New Bossier Representative, New Bossier City Marshall, and a New Sheriff.

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  4. Larry Deen miscalculated in promoting Dempsey over Julian. The talk has been that Deen would pull out of the race to support Dempsey. Not knocking Dempsey, he's a good man, but that would not or will not work.
    Bad decision and it might cost the sheriff his job.

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  5. Does anyone know why Whittington fell out of Deen's grace? For years he appeared to be the heir apparent and then all of the sudden was seemingly demoted from chief deputy to assist. chief.

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  6. Julian is a game changer for this race. Deen will call in all his last ditch effort favors for this one. Hope we get a new Sheriff. Anon at 03:48, well said. A change is coming to Bossier and the good ole boy system better get out of the way.

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  7. Anon @ 3:48: new this, new that, in Bossier City my foot, those guys are controlled by the same old puppet masters in city hall, and one of puppet masters is running for city marshal.

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  8. love to see whittington in the race - going to be tough - i bet he knows where all the bodies are buried - just like ole larry did to vol - julian will do to larry - larry goes down in the 10th round by knockout - going to be a sight to see

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  9. or they may knock each other out and McConnell will fill the void.

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  10. When one hog pushes another out of the way to get at the trough, there is still a hog at the trough.
    One ol'boy replacing another ol'boy is not an end to the ol'boys running Bossier Parish. And like sheep, most of us will sit still and be quiet while we are being fleeced.

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  11. Whittington is a good man. He'll have my vote!

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  12. I'm still wondering how Dempsey started 6 or 7 years ago as a new employee, was promoted and promoted through every rank ending up as Undersheriff (which we don't even need).

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  13. Deen will not be able to answer the tax increase issue.

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  14. Deen will suffer from the whole Dempsey promotion saga as well. He will have a difficult time trying to explain to folks how such an in-experienced officer gets promoted so quickly. There has to be many other more qualified, more experienced, and more capable of being the number two person in the department besides a former tractor salesman.

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  15. I'm a big fan of whittington. When the D.A.R.E. program started in Bossier Parish, If I'm not mistaken he was one of the first DARE officers.

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  16. dempsey and whittington are both good men, why one got promoted over the other is simply politics, but the last time i checked thats the way the world works.

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  17. Somebody explain to me again why I'm voting for a dirty Sheriff or his cousin? Oh yea, that's right, because everyone else is.

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  18. What did Whittington do to get demoted? Probably incompetent.

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  19. What did Whittington do to get demoted? Probably incompetent.

    March 3, 2011 2:05 PM

    -----------------------------------Could be the Sheriff is incompetent.

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  20. For the record, I believe that Deen, Whittington and McConnell are all competent. Doyle Dempsey is not a candidate but from what I can tell he is very competent.
    This race won't come down to competence, it will come down to decision making and accessability.

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  21. Deen has been known to cover things up in his Dept. His officers have made huge errors in judgement and he swept it all under the rug. It's time for him to go.

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  22. March 7 @ 7:33
    Man aint that the truth. There was a deputy who arrested a store owner for "battery" for trying to stop a shoplifter in his own store when the shoplifter tried to fight. And to make matters worse, the deputies sergeant told him to do it. What the hell is that all about. A man can't protect his own property in Bossier parish?

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  23. So how serious is Whittington?

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  24. He is not at all serious. In fact he has not said one thing about running. the only person or people that has said it,is the one's on here!!!!

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