![]() ![]() However, there were several problems with how the party voted on Cannon’s nomination, and they had to basically start over. ![]() 8 nominated Cannon, a veteran of the Wadesboro Police Department, to be awarded the general election votes that went to Reid. His chief deputy - and good friend - Scott Howell became interim sheriff, but the county’s Democratic Party executive committee on Oct. 21, with the death of Sheriff Landric Reid, a Democrat. ![]() But now it may be a situation, because we have competing points of view, that one sheriff may have to sue the other sheriff for the seat.” "Because I understood before this vote that Gerald Cannon was the sheriff. “I’m not sure right now - you’ll have to ask our attorney Scott Forbes, who the real sheriff of Anson County is,” Sossamon said following Tuesday’s meeting. ![]() The Anson County Commission, with two outgoing members, held an emergency meeting Monday night to appoint someone to serve the term of the sheriff who died in September but was reelected in November without opposition.īut Tuesday night, the new county commission threw that appointment out and appointed a different interim sheriff to a four-year term.Ĭonfused? County Manager Leonard Sossamon certainly is. There’s a big question in Anson County today – who is the sheriff? ![]()
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