Militant right wing sheriff Keith Swank is openly inviting his Pierce County constituents to try to recall him -- and the
Yesterday, the rabid, extreme, militant, Trump-aligned sheriff of Washington State’s second largest county disgraced his uniform and disgusted his peers by showing up to a legislative hearing on police accountability legislation and falsely declaring his department to be beyond the authority of the laws of the State of Washington, while also openly inviting those who oppose his extreme ideology to try recalling him from office.
Keith Swank, fifty-seven, took over from embattled fellow Republican Ed Troyer at the beginning of 2025, after winning the 2024 election for Pierce County Sheriff. Since assuming office, he has become increasingly nasty and unhinged, and spends a good deal of his time arguing with people online instead of improving public safety in Pierce County. That pattern of behavior continued yesterday when he appeared before the Senate Law & Justice Committee and delivered an abridged form of this rant opposing Senator John Lovick’s legislation to set up a process for de-certifying sheriffs:
In the interest of time, I’ll skip the fake pleasantries and get right to it.
Elections have consequences, and I acknowledge that. Democrats have a super majority in the house, the senate, governor, and every statewide executive office. You have it all except the office of sheriff, and once you have control over sheriffs you think you can impose your will on people like me.
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