I urge Columbia voters to re-elect Sheriff Walt Hessler and vote for Randy Lewis as County Prosecutor.

It was Deputy Mark Frank­lin, now running against the sheriff, who did not believe or understand the Constitution un­der

which citizens have the right to protect their own property and was stopping property owners at the end of 4th Street from tak­ing tractors to help prevent the notorious Dayton complex fire. We remember the horrendous outcome.

Franklin was Sheriff Bur­gland's undersheriff during that "regime" in another editorial by Clarance Bartlet of Dayton. Mark has never really f...