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SHERIFF SHEILA?

Eesha Williams writes: Sheila Prue, a fourteen-year veteran Brattleboro, Vermont, police sergeant and open lesbian, won an unexpected, landslide victory in the Democratic primary for Windham County sheriff on September 10. She ran against two male veterans of the sheriff's department who spent much more money on their campaigns. One was accused of sexual misconduct by a female subordinate. Prue will face the popular Republican incumbent, Henry Farnum, in the general election. If elected, she will be the nation's first openly lesbian county sheriff. Of 3,088 elected county sheriffs in the United States, twenty-five are women, said Dean Kueter, a spokesman for the National Sheriffs' Association in Arlington, Virginia. (Send checks to Sheila for Sheriff, 128 Main Street, Suite 5, Brattleboro, VT 05301.)

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