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Nugent, commenting from Washington, D.C., where he was just boarding a plane back to Hernando County, said he has not seen the letter and wouldn't respond to his comments anyway.

This is a very telling quote from the story.

This man is the Sheriff of Hernando County. He's running for Congress as Ginny's "chosen successor." The first thing he does as a candidate is get on a plane to Washington DC. And he says he hasn't seen a letter from a potential constituent who lives in the district he's running to represent, but he says he won't respond to his comments anyway.

These people believe that they get to choose their successors. Nugent is already trying to fit in up in Washington DC. He is the candidate who represents everything that is wrong with the elite "inside the beltway" Republicans (including Ginny).

To make matters worse, his handling of the jail situation here in Hernando county (and to some extent the commissioners' handling of this crisis) has resulted in CCA, the private contractor that operates the jail, terminating the contract with 120 days notice. Two days before Sheriff Nugent received his "calling" to go to Congress, CCA sent the termination. Two days after the August 24th Primary, CCA will be handing the keys to the jail over to the county, the Sheriff's department, or whoever the county gets a new contract with to run the jail.

He's going to be very busy over this summer. I also don't see any way he can pull off campaigning and being Sheriff. IMO, the commission here needs to demand his resignation, or that he dedicate himself full time to being sheriff. I hate to agree with a Democrat candidate on anything, but in this case, Piccillo is correct.

From the desk of cc2k:		Candidates I support in 2010: Jason Sager for Congress, FL 5th, Doug Hoffman for Congress, NY 23rd, David Harmer for Congress, CA 10th (website for info), Marco Rubio for Senate, FL

Full disclosure: I am involved in the Sager for Congress campaign, and my company is designing and hosting his web site.

All the time democrats run for other offices and don’t resign their current positions. John Kerry for one. Denis Kucineck (sp?), Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton.

This is just a political tactic.

“Sager does not believe Nugent can juggle running a campaign and performing the duties of a full-time sheriff at the same time.”

What does it matter what Sager believes or doesn’t believe?