Sullivan County sheriff admits to sending text messages

[TexasTowelie]

Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson (R) admitted Saturday to sending text messages that had been shared this week on social media.

On Thursday, county mayoral candidate Gerald Sensabaugh shared screenshots of text messages that were believed to have been sent to a county Sheriff's Office employee. The text messages included profane and derogatory messages about Sensabaugh, independent sheriff's candidate Jeff Cassidy, as well as current and former Sheriff's Office employees.

Anderson issued the statement to local media outlets, except the Bristol Herald Courier, which first reported on the text messages in Saturday's newspaper.

In the statement, Anderson said the conversation was on his own time and he apologized for any material that could have been seen as offensive. He said the last nine months he has been under a "great amount of stress, and I was venting to a person I have known for years and trusted."

Read more: https://www.heraldcourier.com/townnews/work/sullivan-county-sheriff-admits-to-sending-text-messages/article_c3a25848-92bd-11e8-bfcd-2f24d3ac65ef.html

As for the consequences of his actions:

Officer "isn't happy" about texts sheriff sent her

Megan Smith, a Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office corrections officer, said Sunday she isn’t happy with the statement Sheriff Wayne Anderson sent to local media outlets about the profane and derogatory text messages he sent to her, and she plans to sue him.

Screenshots of the text messages between Smith and Anderson were shared on Facebook and Twitter on Thursday by Sullivan County mayoral candidate Gerald Sensabaugh. Smith said she sent the screenshots to him.

Anderson, who is running for re-election against independent Jeff Cassidy on Aug. 2, admitted Saturday to sending the messages to Smith in a statement to local media outlets, except the Bristol Herald Courier. A Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman confirmed the text messages were sent from his county-issued cell phone.

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“He never apologized to any of the officers that he was threatening their jobs,” said Smith. “He never apologized for, really, anything that he said. … Some of those text messages I’m pretty positive he was sitting in his office when he sent [them] so I don’t know about that whole ‘on my own time’ comment. I don’t believe it was on his own time, and it was a county phone.”

https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/officer-isn-t-happy-about-texts-sheriff-sent-her/article_996aa61a-0d8d-51a4-a163-0020b95c90eb.html


Interestingly, the sheriff has also filed multimillion dollar lawsuits against the county--TWICE!
Sullivan Sheriff Wayne Anderson suing county for $6.5 million
https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/sullivan-sheriff-wayne-anderson-suing-county-for-million/article_24de6c38-5963-11e5-9e91-4bced7820511.html

[marble falls]

1. If he weren't so stupid there wouldn't be so much pressure.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I don't see how he is reelected.

As a taxpayer, suing your employer twice would be sufficient to disqualify him from consideration.

[marble falls]

3. I've noted that suing one's employer once is enough to shadows one future with that employer ...

suing twice is a victory of self-righteousness over common sense.