Dallas County current, ex-sheriff vying for top cop in runoff election

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The runoff election for Dallas County sheriff will almost certainly decide who oversees the county’s law enforcement agency and jail for the next four years....

Sheriff Marian Brown is running to keep her post, while her former boss, Lupe Valdez, is aiming for a political comeback.

Lupe Valdez smiles as Marian Brown is named interim county sheriff at the Dallas County administration building in Dallas on Dec. 19, 2017. Sheriff Marian Brown is running to keep her post, while Lupe Valdez — who served as sheriff from 2005 until she stepped down to run for governor and endorsed Brown as her replacement in 2017 — is vying for a political comeback.

“Sheriff Brown’s mismanagement is causing Dallas County inmates and deputies to be put in danger as well as our on law abiding citizens here in Dallas County,” Hendrix said. “Our campaign feels that enough Democratic voters will vote to bring Lupe back to fix the many issues that Sheriff Brown has created.”that has left some inmates languishing in cells.

Valdez was elected in 2004 and credited with starting a blue wave that firmly cemented Democratic Party control of Dallas County. After being reelected three times and becoming one of the most popular Democrats in North Texas,for governor in a narrow runoff, making history as the first Hispanic woman and first openly gay person to win a major party’s gubernatorial nomination in the state. She lost in the general election to incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott.

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