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- Oxford Eagle, Oct. 7, 1997
- Chase McFadden
STAFF WRITER
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- In a telephone poll conducted at random last week by
the offices of The Oxford Eagle newspaper, three
hundred registered voters in Oxford and Yoknapatawpha
County were asked the following questions:
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- 1. Do you think Sheriff Lamar should continue as
Sheriff as Yoknapatawpha County?
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- Forty-three percent (43%) of the respondents answered
YES. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of the respondents
answered NO.
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- 2. Do you believe that Sheriff Lamar is doing a
capable job in his position as Sheriff?
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- Forty percent (40%) of the respondents answered YES.
Sixty percent (60%) of the respondents answered NO.
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- 3. Will you vote for Sheriff Lamar if he runs for
re-election this year?
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- Forty-one percent (41%) of the respondents answered
YES. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of the respondents answered
NO.
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- The Oxford Eagle asked Sheriff Lamar to
respond to the results of the poll, but he and his
department both refused to comment. The sheriff has been
under fire lately for a bizarre chain of events in the
city and county that his department has failed to
prevent, including a gruesome kidnapping and murder,
numerous rapes, and a sheriff's department transport van
crash that resulted in the escape of two felons,
including Edward Pierce, the infamous "box killer"
currently thought to be on the lam in Louisiana.
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- Lamar says that he and his department are doing the
best job they possibly can to deal with what some
citizens are calling an outbreak of "outright anarchy" in
the city and county in the last few months.
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