In one of the most hotly-contested races this election cycle, we feel that Mike Mondul is the best candidate for the job of Danville City Sheriff.
Mike Mondul, Thelbert Childress and Wayne Booth are the candidates for this year’s Danville City Sheriff election. Each candidates bring a different set of qualifications to the table.
While we admire Wayne Booth’s attitude to try to make a difference in the agency that he has worked at for 31 years, he hasn’t risen to the level of the other two candidates in the race. Thelbert Childress definitely has the experience to do a good job in the office, but we’ve been turned off by his negative campaigning which has misstated Mondul’s proposed initiatives. During the Danville Ministerial Alliance’s forum, Childress stated that the city jail has plenty of information regarding Danville’s gang problems but nobody from the police department has ever asked to look at it. Although the duties of the sheriff’s office and the police department are totally different, the position of not openly sharing information that could help is repugnant and completely unacceptable in a city that is trying to get a gang problem under control. Despite these faults, Childress is still a viable candidate for the office of Sheriff but we feel he falls short of Mondul in this election.
Mike Mondul is also highly qualified for the office of Sheriff, currently having a distinguished career with the Danville Police Department. He has shown a dedication to Danville in both his career and personal life. He has proposed initiatives in the Sheriff’s Department that make a lot of common sense, including having the Sheriff’s Dept. personnel do the booking process (as done in nearby localities) to get the police officers back on the street and providing field training for the sworn deputies to give them a better skill set in case of an emergency situation. (Childress misconstrued this initiative by trying to say that Mondul wanted to make the Sheriff’s Dept. into another police department, which was totally false.) Mondul is very active in the community in numerous aspects and has said that he will continue to be proactive. Mondul is also highly supported by the current law enforcement community and that carries a lot of weight in our thought process. The people who do the job on a daily basis would logically be the people who would know the best man for the job.
SouthsideCentral believes that Mike Mondul is clearly the best of the three candidates and that he will make an excellent Danville City Sheriff. We give Mike Mondul our highest endorsement and strongly encourage all Danville residents to vote for Mike Mondul on November 3rd.
Clear choice! Go MIKE
Childress is the ONLY choice. Despite the ststement to the contrary Danville does not need another police department. End of story. Go for experience, not fluff, vote Childress!!
I have to ask myself whether or not any of the three candidates actually understand the duties of the Sheriffs Dept or whether they just think that we (the voters) don’t?
Probably all three are qualified, but I have to wonder whether Mondul is the best or whether he simply has the best name recognition. There might also be some resentment on the part of others in the sheriffs department if Mondul is elected over someone already in the department. Who knows?
[…] Four years ago we highly recommended Mike Mondul because we thought he was a law enforcement profess…. We were absolutely right with Mondul fulfilling all of his campaign promises and being a quite-visible leader in the community. Mondul is running for his second term and we can’t see anything that’s changed in the last four years. Mondul’s leadership of his department and his staff’s dedication to him says a lot, and Mondul’s push for community activism influences the community quite positively. […]