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Sheriff on jail closure, Twitter, lack of trust in Jolivette
In this story, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones elaborates on why he closed the Resolutions minimum security jail late yesterday evening. He did it to save money, he said.
So why didn’t he tell commissioners? He said it was a safety issue, and he has since discussed it with commissioners Donald Dixon and Charles Furmon. But not Commissioner Gregory Jolivette.
“I don’t have much trust for him,” Jones said of Jolivette.
Instead, he tweeted about it. Why?
“I just wanted to see if you guys are watching those (tweets)” he said. “The sheriff does tweet.”
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By Unbelieving
June 5, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this
What a blowhole. Reminds me of Boss Hogg on the old Duke’s of Hazard show on Tv.
By Ron
June 5, 2009 4:03 PM | Link to this
The lesson for local politicians here is don’t back Jones for congress and you’ll pay. Now if Jolly can figure out that his good buddy Don is stabbing him in the back maybe he can hang on. With friends like these old Jolly doesn’t need enemies.
By Hamilton
June 6, 2009 7:09 AM | Link to this
Isn’t Jolly the sheriff’s boss? and he didn’t tell them…Who doesn’t trust who?!
By Hamilton
June 6, 2009 7:09 AM | Link to this
Isn’t Jolly the sheriff’s boss? and he didn’t tell them…Who doesn’t trust who?!
By Joe
June 6, 2009 9:45 AM | Link to this
Jolivette, when ask several weeks ago about Jones running for congress the right answer would have been: “Rick Jones is a great man and my personal hero, he not only has been the best sheriff in the history of Butler County but of the entire world. I’ll be supporting him for congress and even president should we want to run.” Others who have political ambitions in Butler County should commit this statement to memory otherwise Jonesy is going to “lack trust in you”.
By Ed
June 6, 2009 4:05 PM | Link to this
Jones, doesn’t trust Jollivetter. Most police officers don’t trust Jones, he is a legend in his own mind, and everyone else is dirt under his feet. What a jerk
By Karen
June 7, 2009 8:58 AM | Link to this
No more GED in Butler County jail? How does Jones define rehabilitation? Something very odd about a sheriff that loves chain gangs but not GEDs
By Helenn
June 7, 2009 9:41 AM | Link to this
Jonesy did the right thing. It isn’t that he doesn’t want to rehabilitate, he is being forced to cut costs and this is one way to do that. He already explained the secrecy of telling no one about the move, do you remember the word SECURITY? Looks like Jolly doesn’t care about SECURITY if there had been leaks about the story, someone could have been injured
By Fireman
June 7, 2009 11:45 AM | Link to this
Hey Jonesy, we taxpayers gave you $35 million dollars four years ago for a radio system, why isn’t it working?????
By girl in hamilton
June 7, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this
I think what jones did was great. why do the convicts need an edgucation in jail thats BS. They are there to be punished not be treated like kings.
By Mike
June 7, 2009 10:57 PM | Link to this
Why house prisoners from Hamilton County? And who is Jones to run for Congress? Is John Boehner dead?
By JMB
June 7, 2009 11:28 PM | Link to this
The people of this county and the commissioners have created the Jones monster and only they can slay it at the ballot box. It’s time for the voters to get some backbone and some smarts.
By Gary
June 8, 2009 11:06 AM | Link to this
I seen the sheriff driving his hummer on route 4 yeasterday and did you know on the cover over his spare tire on the back says sherriff Jones for President…. like that would ever happen