Joined by about a dozen supporters, Edgar Shuler, a former lieutenant with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, made his candidacy official by filing at the Board of Elections just before the office closed. Shuler claims he was fired Jan. 27 by David Grice after the sheriff learned the 13-year veteran of the department was planning on running against him.
Shuler, who started his career with the Thomasville Police Department in 1996, said he started seriously considering running for sheriff about eight months ago. Filing Friday, he joins Grice, former Sheriff Gerald Hege and Terry Price, a retired state patrolman, in the sheriff’s race.
Emphasizing his young age compared to other candidates, Shuler said he’s hoping to draw the attention away from the Hege and Grice campaigns.
“It’s time to bring in the new people who want to bring the department to the 21st century because we are not up to date with Guilford County, Winston and High Point (police departments),” Shuler said. “We need to get someone in there younger with the younger guys who are going to be here for many years. I’m going to give them that consistency that the other candidates can’t. If I’m elected, I’m going to stay there.”
Shuler said he decided to run because he feels there needs to be changes at the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, claiming the current sheriff is using the “buddy system” and is wasting taxpayer dollars.
If elected sheriff, Shuler said he plans to get more deputy cars out on the streets and restructure the sheriff’s office.
“I want to restructure some of the officers and their supervisors who have rank and have been in the same positions for a long period of time,” he said. “Some of them have become unproductive.”
Shuler, Grice, Hege and Price will face each other in the May 4 primary.
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