Politics & Government

Greg Pound on the Patch Podium: Experience

Each of the Pinellas County sheriff candidates took a moment on the Patch Podium to explain — in his own words — how his life experience will contribute to the job if he is elected sheriff.

Each week, we're asking each of the Pinellas County sheriff candidates a question that's important to you, the voter, so you can be informed come ballot time.

This week, we asked:

If elected, how will your past work and life experience contribute to your role as sheriff?

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 answers:

"America has been built with the blood of our forefathers, people before us from all over the world who fought for rule of law, to keep government small, and to defend individual liberty, coming to America to be free. It was called the American dream as Martin L. King stated. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all — our Pledge of Allegiance to the American Dream. My wife and I have worked very hard to make this our dream for our family and other families and their children by being law-abiding people. The sheriff represents the people not the politicians.

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“If every person has the right to defend — even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness—is base on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose of any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since and individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups, Bastiat/the Law.

"So the job of sheriff is to protect the individual and collective rights of the people. And this should be are everyday work and life experience as Americans. While working on the Pinellas County Juvenile Justice Counsel for the 6th circuit, then moving up to the 6th circuit Department of Juvenile Justice Board for Pinellas and Pasco County, with different judges; first Judge Flemming, Sheriff Jim Coats was on this board, different county commissioners, and the list goes on.

"In short, seeing the corruption, this is why they have three lawyer from the sheriff's department running for sheriff: Scott Swope, Everett Rice and Robert Gualtieri. Lawyers who are members of the Florida bar are barred from running for sheriff, they are illegally running and they know it, according to the Florida Constitution, act 2, sec. 3, 'Separation of powers clause.' It’s about money and getting people stuck in the system and the biggest dollars come through domestic or families. Thomas Jefferson said in 1782 'for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.' "


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