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The Deschutes County Sheriff’s race is the most heated local race.  The Source Weekly has endorsed appointed Sheriff Shane Nelson who has only been in office 15 months.  His opponent Eric Kozowski says Nelson is part of the problem in a department rocked with controversy including staff affairs and the theft of $200,000 by a former Captain now serving prison time.  Nelson says his department is reacting in a systematic way and that such incidents won’t be tolerated.  After this debate, Kozowski retracted a denial he made to the Source Weekly stating that he was misquoted on radio station KBND. KBND produced his exact words during an interview showing otherwise.  

This article appears in Sep 21-28, 2016.

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Deschutes County: Sheriff’s Race Heated

by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon
September 28, 2016

<h1>Deschutes County: Sheriff’s Race Heated</h1> <p class="byline">by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />September 28, 2016</p> <p>The Deschutes County Sheriff's race is the most heated local race. &nbsp;The Source Weekly has endorsed appointed Sheriff Shane Nelson who has only been in office 15 months. &nbsp;His opponent Eric Kozowski says Nelson is part of the problem in a department rocked with controversy including staff affairs and the theft of $200,000 by a former Captain now serving prison time. &nbsp;Nelson says his department is reacting in a systematic way and that such incidents won't be tolerated. &nbsp;After this debate, Kozowski retracted a denial he made to the Source Weekly stating that he was misquoted on radio station KBND. KBND produced his exact words during an interview showing otherwise. &nbsp;<br /> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/embed/I7vbyZp8asM </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/deschutes-county-sheriffs-race-heated-2762394/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=18244&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/deschutes-county-sheriffs-race-heated-2762394/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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