Candidates for Fairfax County sheriff speak at Annandale forum
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| Independent candidate Chris DeCarlo. |
House of Delegates candidates for districts that include the Annandale/Mason
area appeared at a forum in Annandale Oct. 17 co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area and the Mason District Council of Community Associations. This
report covers the sheriff’s race. We’ll report on the other candidates in a
later post.
Fairfax County Democratic Committee; Bryan Wolfe, the Republican candidate, who
has 26 years of experience in the Fairfax County Police Department; and two
independents: Robert Rivera, a former deputy sheriff in Arlington, and Chris DeCarlo, the rapping candidate.
Kincaid gave an outline of the Sheriff’s Office’s main responsibilities:
managing the Adult Detention Center, acting
as a process server in civil lawsuits, and providing security at the
courthouse. In addition, the Sheriff’s Office oversees Project Lifesaver, a
program for electronically monitoring people prone to run away and get lost,
child safety seat inspections, and other programs.
Office’s outreach within ethnic communities.
Wolfe told the audience he was angry and in a bad mood because his car had been vandalized four times in the past two weeks. After he calmed down a bit, he said his priorities include putting video recorders in the Adult Detention Center and providing more crisis intervention training to help sheriffs deal with mentally ill inmates.
Rivera proposed a mentorship program for first-time offenders convicted of non-violent crimes. He also called for a tutoring program for youths “to stop the cycle of criminal activity in families.” As a Latino, Rivera touts his credentials as the only minority among the candidates.
delivered a cowboy-theme rap, beginning
with: “I’m not with a party; I got my own voice. Don’t vote to the left or
right, you got a better choice.” He also has a campaign rap on You Tube with
a Star Wars theme. Later, DeCarlo explained that he uses raps to get attention, because
independents usually aren’t taken seriously. “All the other candidates have to
listen to me,” he said.
is “to protect the Constitution” and fight corruption. “Money has taken over
the government,” he said, and the political parties are supported by special
interests. As a result, the nation is “headed for George Orwell’s 1984.” This is his fifth campaign, and he’s actually simultaneously
running for the House of Delegates in the 41st District, which includes parts
of Springfield, Burke, and Fairfax.
deal with the rise in human trafficking in the county, both Wolfe and Kincaid
noted that it’s the Police Department that’s in charge of law enforcement. Kincaid said
it’s important to make sure sheriff’s deputies have appropriate training so they
will be sensitive to those types of crimes when they interview incoming
inmates.
a tragedy” and people who sell guns should be trained and licensed.
Wolfe, a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, said gun ownership is a constitutional right and “you can’t infringe on citizens’ rights to bear arms.” He said he visited Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., after the mass shooting last December, in which a local man used assault rifles to kill 26 children and adults. Wolfe said the Newtown police officers he spoke with still support the constitutional right of citizens to own guns.
gunfight to battle political corruption, which ends with: “A straight shooter by
your side, yippie yi ohhh, he can fight crime and he can ride, Yippie yi aye. This
ain’t his first rodeo, yippie yi ohhh. For sheriff vote Chris DeCarlo.”
