Paid for by Citizens for an Open and Honest Government, Robin Mielke, Treasurer.
Not
authorized by any candidate or candidate’s agent or committee.
“Citizens for an Open
and Honest Government” openly opposes Sheriff Charewicz’s re-election and
feels he should not be Sheriff of Portage County.
Lloyd Pionkowski has sent us a number of documents regarding some concerns he has regarding Sheriff Charewicz. We have agreed to post a particular document on this site for view. Citizens for an Open and Honest Government at this time is not trying to justify or condemn the actions of Mr. Pionkowski. We do have concerns, however, with the action taken by Sheriff Charewicz. Our concerns are as follows.
·
The actions of Mr. Pionkowski
mentioned by the sheriff in the second paragraph of his letter would not take
place while working for his employer. Thus the employer has no legal jurisdiction or
power over the mentioned actions of his employee.
Thus this threat to remove this employer from the list is extremely out
of line, if not illegal.
·
Separate and apart from the issues
or problems Mr. Pionkowski has with the sheriff, he is well within his
constitutional rights to
seek and request public records and documents.
·
Separate and apart from the issues
or problems Mr. Pionkowski has with the sheriff, he is also well within his
rights to bring those concerns to the Attorney General, the Governor, or any
other private or public official.
·
Separate and apart from the issues
or problems Mr. Pionkowski has with the sheriff, the constitution still gives
Mr. Pionkowski the right to voice his concerns and views publicly.
·
If Mr. Pionkowski slandered a
deputy as the sheriff claims, there are legal recourses for that deputy to take
against Mr. Pionkowski. We see no
legal right for the sheriff to use these tactics to force a Portage County
resident to keep quiet.
·
We feel the sheriff’s letter
contains threats and intimidation tactics against a local business.
·
This employer has no legal control
over the situation. We find this
action is totally out of line and unprofessional, and we wonder why the sheriff
would go to such questionable extremes to keep this man quiet.
·
We feel the sheriff is out of line
in discrediting Mr. Pionkowski to his employer by mentioning his girlfriend’s
supposed problems with the sheriff’s department.
Actually it appears from the second to the last paragraph that the
problem seems to concern the sheriff’s campaign contributions and certain towing
companies and not his girlfriend.
· Unless
the sheriff has actual proof, we feel the sheriff’s accusations in the third
paragraph of the letter are nothing more than the sheriff’s speculations which
inappropriately slander Mr. Pionkowski's character.
We have received a number of
other complaints and documents from residents of Portage County regarding
Sheriff Charewicz, and as we review these we will put them on this website.
Please keep in mind, not all the complaints received will be placed on
this site. Some of these complaints involve names of businesses and people who
may not want their issues publicized.
Click
here to view sheriff's letter
(please note, this is a reproduction of the letter, complete with handwritten
notes, that we received)
Click here to view Lloyd Pionkowski letter which he submitted to the papers.
Paid for by Citizens for an Open and Honest Government, Robin Mielke, Treasurer.
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s agent or committee.