“That our two top county law enforcement officers, both sheriff and district attorney, carefully defer taking salary raises while campaigning and inform the electorate of their decision, thus appearing to have the best interests of the people in mind, then, after winning re-election, step up and pick up extra money, is much more than ‘small potatoes,’ as you put it. Call it what it is: betrayal of public trust.”
— Ed Hoffman in Saturday’s letters to the editor of the Union-Tribune
