Boon Or Bane?: Harford Sheriff Set To End Speculation By Announcing Re-Election Plans Thursday
Written by Brian · Filed Under Local Ink
September 5, 2008 | Email this post
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Despite speculation he would run for Harford County Executive or even Harford County Council in 2010, Sheriff L. Jesse Bane appears to be on the verge of announcing his plans to run again for the office he won in 2006.
The Fallston resident was one of the only Democrats to win elected office in Harford County in 2006, when he defeated Republican Norm Cochran, but there has been persistant rumbling - almost since he was elected - that Bane might have his eyes set on another prize.
The political rumor mill had Bane alternately running for the Harford County Council District B seat or challenging David Craig for County Executive. Those whispers were silenced recently when it became known Bane would announce his re-election plans during a fundraiser Thursday at the Maryland Golf and Country Club.
Bane’s impending announcement not only takes some of the speculation out of the county executive and county council races in 2010, it also will shake up what was expected to be a crowded ballot of candidates running for sheriff.
No fewer than 7 candidates, most Republicans, have already started laying the groundwork for a run at the county’s top law enforcement position.
Among those rumored to have interest in running for sheriff are Roger Sheets formerly of the Baltimore County Police Department, former sheriff candidates Norm Cochran and Dave Tritt, Nick Paros formerly of the Maryland State Police, Jeffrey Gahler of Maryland State Police, Aberdeen Police Capt. Ken Cox, Jack Meckley of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office and recently retired Sheriff’s Office Maj. Steven Bodway.
I won’t vote for him again, his personal vendettas are a little too much for me. Out of the bunch, I would vote for either Paros or Meckley.
Well then, if personal vendettas are a little too much for anyone, don’t vote for Cox from Aberdeen! He wrote the book! Meckley is a surprise and a pretty cool guy. Should be interesting.
HEY BIC YOU DONT LIKE COX???
I’am not a ware of any personal vendettas’s of Cox’s. but theres nothing like airing the dirty’ laundry before it’s time to vote.
I don’t think Cox holds any personal grudges, I’ve delt with him before (both good and bad) and when he gets mad, he gets over it and moves on. My only problem with him is his lack of formal education. He could be a ‘dark horse’ in this race but I would stand by my Paros or Meckley. Both are down to earth guys and have great ideas. I think either one would move the agency forward. I think Bane is holding everyone back. He’s more of a politician and needs to get out of law enforcement.
Whats with the vendettas…can somone explain for those of us that are not in that loop.
umm…yea Bane burnt too many bridges for me to vote him in again. Im not sure who I will vote for and The Dagger sure wont be the first to know. LOL
I remember the sherrifs dept busting each other during the last election…vauge memory….does somone have a better recollectioin?
Go Dagger!
I suppose people change as they age. some for the better. some not. ken cox worked a case for me some time back. He ran in too the I’am not telling you any thing crowd. Privacy act etc.
Some time back is meaning to say’ when he was a working, detective. he was pleasant very professional.he appeared very relaxed & confident. the privacy garbage did’nt work with him.
He brought to light, another sex offender. he was charged with the crime. he is listed on Harford county sex offenders list.
I’m not surprised by some of the names who, speculatively, will be throwing their hats into the ring for Sheriff in 2010. I know EACH and EVERY one of these men personally. Let me just start by saying EGO. Ken Cox will fail miserably when his dirty laundry hits the wind. He’s no better, and can I mention, in the brotherhood of men who were run out of dodge in the last election for running a corrupt three ring circus. He and Howard Walter are VERY good friends. Could Howard be planning a tenth life (he used the other nine) in yet another position with the Sheriff’s Office through Ken Cox. Jack Meckley is a good guy, but lacks the chops needed for a job at this level. Nick Paros is a nice fellow too, but again, lacks the backbone needed to guide the largest law enforcement agency in Harford County. Again, Cunningham is in the pocket of the last administration and if I were a betting man, he would probably also resurrect Howard Walter in some way with a shiney new high paying job at the Sheriff’s Office. The other names mentioned are all fine fellows too, but again, lack the experience needed for this job. I’d like to see what ‘burned bridges’, the above person mentioned, was in reference to with regard to Bane. Most likely he didn’t pander to something they wanted from him and now they’re pouting. Bane is a good man. He’s done more for the sheriff’s office than anyone in recent times. I challenge anyone to dig up dirt on this guy. He’s clean as a whistle and a credit to the type of work he does. Go Bane……see you in 2010.
Good discipline, professional officers:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-md.ci.deputy09sep09,0,1804329.story
Wonder if Rothwell will play the victory party!
How stupid…stupid…stupid…stupid…stupid…can a person be.
Go Dagger !
Isn’t he one of the elie gang busters in Edgewood? The cream of the crop?
Rwinger … if that’s the case is it any wonder we have so many problems?
Go Dagger !
When Sheriff Bill Kunkel stepped down from the high office of Sheriff, a series of back-biting, bickering buffoons began begging for attention and finding fault with everything in the department…a department which by the way was run without back stabbing from the men under Kunkel.
Now it’s back to the same old crap, of a bunch of Union sissies, namely the head of the Union who was caught with his shoes off, sleeping on the job…and he should have been fired, not retained as a lawman.
I say clean out the men and women who aren’t proud to serve the people of the county, they’re lucky to have a job…and it’s an honorable job, only if the folks who wear the badge and tote the gun are honorable, and do the job they are supposed to do….
Sheriff Bane is a good man, he rose through the ranks, and he will no doubt be re-elected…and the more who run, the merrier for the incumbant.
keep in mind, the county is fast becoming the last frontier of rural country life…a life where kids respected the law, parents respected teachers…and lawmen and lawwomen were the examples of life as it should be…
The Dagger has recently learned that Jeffrey Gahler of Maryland State Police is also expected to run for sheriff in 2010.
Hiram Lodgepole I agree with you’ can you remember chester narvel? kunkel was a good sheriff. Bane seem’s to be allowing, to much horse play in too his department.
Vet- Sheriff Bane isn’t “allowing to(sp) much horesplay in too(sp) his department.”
On the contrary, he has been more proactive than most of his recent predecessors in getting rid of these types, inasmuch as LEOBR will allow.
(sound of me climbing up on my soapbox)
The problem is more generationally based than leadership based. Look at these guys ID#s. Are they 200’s? 400’s? or 800’s?
Todays officers were raised on “COPS,” “Super Troopers,” and “Reno 911.” Some get into the job for the three g’s: guns gas(adrenaline) and girls. No badge bunny is safe. Todays officer wants it now, and he’ll tell you up front that he’ll bounce if he doesn’t get it. They want to “specialize,” whether it’s traffic, drugs, vice, tactical teams, whatever. Never mind that there’s guys with more training, knowledge, and experience ahead of them.
A few, too few, still consider it a calling more than a vocation. These are the guys who are the first on a call and the last off. The guys the supervisors will go to when they want something done, done right, and done right now. The guy who knew coming into the job that it would mean shiftwork, missed meals, missed holidays, missed Rec League games, and the occasional spousal discord.
No, Vet, there is no leader alive who can meet all of the needs and demands of this new generation of police. To his credit, Sheriff Bane has shown a great deal of resolve thusfar in “trying” to weed out the few bad apples in what is becoming a larger and larger apple cart.
(sound of me getting off of my soapbox)
Very well spoken Dell. I grew up in a time’ when police officers were known on a first name basis. there was a lot of friendly’ bantering. we were warned about drag raceing. on rte#155 & jarrett’s ville pike. bynum run just past fountain green.
One officer who stood out was Ray caddilac. a man who stood out as a trooper he was known for giveing a ticket & then paying the parent’s a visit. as too what mommy’s babies were in to.
the police interceptor’s were fast. but those 1955’s & 1957 chevy’s were souped up and ready too go. then came the pontiac gto’s the ford ltd’s etc.s I will give bane a chance to stand out. he has’nt done such a bad job as of yet.