Accusations fly in unusual runoff election for DeKalb Sheriff
Should Ruth Stringer win next month’s runoff election, she’d become DeKalb County’s sheriff for just a few months.
But Stringer said she’s staying in the race because even that short amount of time would allow her to expose the corruption she claims is happening inside the sheriff’s office.
“This is the last opening that the citizens are going to have to get a real snapshot of what’s going on inside the sheriff’s office,” Stringer said this week. “And it’s the last time that the GBI will be invited in” to investigate.
Incumbent Sheriff Melody Maddox took office last December when Sheriff Jeffrey Mann stepped down. The runoff that will be decided Aug. 11 is to fill the remainder of Mann’s unexpired term, which runs through the end of the year.
Maddox, a former chief deputy, already earned an outright win in a separate Democratic primary against seven competitors — including Stringer — and will face Republican Harold Dennis in November for the right to be DeKalb’s next full-term, four-year sheriff. In deep blue DeKalb, she’s all but a guaranteed winner.
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