 Basically what I want to talk about, because this is not a political function, that's not what you're about, it's about protecting your rights and your constitution. So the reason I was asked to come speak is before, if you don't know what happened in St. Charles County, we lost the sheriff. Now, I'm running for sheriff, but it's a whole different entity than what it was while starting in 2015. There will be an appointed chief over the patrol division, which is what protects you. And then what I'm running for is a sheriff, which is over the court's prisoner transport, so a process. And what a lot of my guys ask me is, why are you doing that? Because, you know, my guys from patrol want to keep me in patrol. But one of the main reasons I'm running for it is wanting to protect what we already have from the bailiffs, the prisoner transport officers. You know, they don't want to lose their power and I don't. I came through the old school. I started in the jail the way you're supposed to, but I think you're in your way. I started in the jail, worked to the courthouse and then go to patrol. So the reason that I'm running is because I want to protect their rights. Because we're going to lose them. I mean, they've been lost over here in St. Louis County with that. Because if you don't have a strong sheriff in there to fight to keep those, then they're going to lose them. But off that subject, because now it sounds like I'm speaking politically to vote for me, but you can vote for me if you want to. But what started this is last year, well, two years ago now, our current sheriff, Tom Neer, was behind this deal to get us a chief of police to get us out basically to take the power out of your hands is to simplify it as simply as we can. His reasoning, because I've been asked a couple of times here, what was his reasoning behind that? His reasoning to us and to the general public was to take politics out of the department. Well, anybody that works in any, not just law enforcement, but any job that you have, there are politics involved, correct? So we were fighting and we fought really hard and we lost by a slim margin, but we lost. And the reasoning that I put when I would go talk to people is you don't want to lose control of the sheriff. If the sheriff is not accountable to you, who's he going to be accountable to? And in this case it will be a chief. That chief will be accountable to a county executive who's accountable to nobody. I mean, technically, yes, he has to run for office, but he gets to make all the rules. And I want, so my reasoning for running for sheriff of basically out of law enforcement as we know it is so that while I'm in that position, I will fight to get this back. Now there's people that are petitions and there takes, I believe, 16,000 signatures to get it on the ballot. So that's one of the things I want to assure you is that we have to fight to keep our right. If that, what we call what's been called the top cop, if he's not accountable to anybody, what's going to happen? Or what's potentially going to happen? And that's what I'm afraid of. We have a constitution, we had a lot of people fight for us to get us to this point and we don't want to lose it. And right now in St. Charles County, as of January 1st, 2015, it's lost. Now it's not a hopeless cause because you still have the right to get a petition going. That's a lot of work. But also if you've got somebody in there from the inside, which is if I get elected, I will fight from the inside to get this change back. And one of the things that I've talked to, and I've talked to several people at the Republican committee is to get the people to put pressure on their county council people or whoever because if the constituents aren't going to vote them in, they'll do whatever you want them to do. They can get it on the ballot by just saying, county council people can get it put on the ballot without a vote. And then it can go to the vote of the people. Otherwise we've got to get all these signatures and things. It'll happen, I believe that because going around and talking about the different entities in St. Charles County, I was amazed at how angry people are that they lost this right to vote for the sheriff. So this just goes along with the Second Amendment. I mean, you have the right to put that person in power that you trust that's going to protect you and not protect, per se, the government or whatever that is. That's why Missouri has its own constitution. Each state has its own constitution. So I just wanted to talk about how, kind of make you aware of what's happened in St. Charles County. I talked to Chief Fitch, who's now retired or resigning, because he's the chief over here in St. Louis County, which is a police department. And I asked him because the sheriff had him come over to talk to our county council and our county executive when this was trying to get on the ballot. And it did make the ballot, which is why we lost it. But Chief Fitch said it's six to one half a dozen the other. Politics is politics. So the bottom line is whether you want to keep your right or you just want to give it away to whoever wants to appoint that position. So if you want to know what's going on in St. Charles County, you've got people here you can talk to myself. But if you are in St. Charles County, help us. Chuck Marley's got petitions going too. He's helping over there. But I just want to reassure you that I'm behind and for and always have been. Be accountable to you, period. The bottom line is to be accountable to the people of the county. And that, is there any questions or anything? Perhaps you could address on the constitutional powers and authorities that are given to a sheriff versus the chief of police. Well, based on the constitution is that the sheriff is what I said the top cop basically has overall authority within that particular county. So when it came if it come down to catastrophe, the sheriff actually has over the overall power of what's going on, which is why all the emergency management and all that falls under the sheriff. So the chiefs are just a sub entity of the sheriff to simplify. I mean, they don't answer the sheriff, you know, each chief in each community is their own entity. But if in a massive thing, yeah, the sheriff. One of the questions I have is, as a sheriff, let's say the federal government were to come in and, for example, let's say you've got a farmer in St. Charles County and the feds want to come in and destroy all this milk because he sold raw milk to his next door neighbor or something like that. Come in and dump it all out on as sure as you have the authority to say, no, you can't come into my county and do this. But as an appointed chief of police without the vote of the people, do you still have that authority? That authority would go to the county executive. And technically, yes, would you still? The way it's supposedly to have it set up, because from what I understand, there are a couple of lawsuits going on against this through the attorney general. And I don't know the specifics on it. I just know the couple of people. I know Steve Ableton is one of them that has filed a lawsuit. But from way we understand it in law enforcement at the department is the chief answers to the county executive. So if the county executive allows the federal government to come in, you're going to let the federal government come in. Any other questions? Thank you so much for letting me come and speak. Those of you who've been here a few times know that we have one of our old keepers who is very involved with this, Mark Messler. Also about half of our membership is or at least half is in St. Charles. And if you happen to be in St. Charles and you haven't signed the petition, make sure that you sign it tonight. But Mark has been working very tirelessly on getting signatures to get the sheriff back in St. Charles County. And I think Mark wanted to, did you want to say something? Would you come up here? I sure do, ma'am. I just wanted to give a brief history on myself. I know most of the oath keepers know that we have a lot of visitors. I've been working on this project for over two years by myself with another group of people, starting with the Save Our Sheriff group. And it did lose by a .72% margin. I wish it never would have. I wish we had worked a little harder back then. So you're going to have to beat the bush so hard this time. But we watched the results come in at the bar on St. Charles and we were just dumbfounded. There was a recount that was supposed to be done. So it's a very passionate thing for me because I don't lose elected sheriff. And I'm certainly for somebody that's pro second amendment who wants to be sheriff. I didn't know about the second option that he said about calling this county councilman. So I'm definitely going to work on that end of it now, knowing that and trying to get something. Do you think it can be done with witness forms too? Or just calling them bother my death? Yeah. I had a meeting with Tony Tawad just last week who this guy is awesome. He doesn't even live in the district. He's from New Jersey from New Hampshire from the Free State and he comes down here to work on contracts. And he's been here for the last two years and he's been wrapped up in all this for the last two years as well. He collects the most signatures on his own. He's a tall guy with an accent. You might see him out at soccer games, etc. He's collected over a thousand signatures just on his own. So I got to give him props and throw his name out there. There's other groups I belong to. One of them is St. Louis County or St. Charles Liberty Project. And that's when it started to save our share. They started on this petition drive this time but had to fall out with other people. Unfortunately, it's cost us our volunteers and not everybody's as organized as it should be. So I've been coming here and everywhere else I go carrying this thing with me to get signatures. But now that I asked for help too to go door to door and it doesn't warm up. We need approximately 18,000 with the error rate margin for good signatures, bad signatures. And we have 2,000 right now so it's only 10%. We've only got 16 more weeks to go until the July deadline. So in essence, we need 1,000 signatures per week. So when the weather does get warm enough, we're going to be beating the streets to get these signatures. And I can give you a suggestion. My daughter and I were downtown St. Louis on Sabbath on Sunday for the Pet Parade. And there were people walking through the crowd getting signatures for something. I mean, I'm not in St. Louis City, much less the county, so I couldn't sign any of the petitions. But there were people there. So my point to you is we've got a Colorado parade coming up. And I don't know what your July day is but we've got the Fourth of July parade and we've found it too. We've got people just walking along the streets where the people are viewing the parade and you can probably get signatures that much. That's actually when we started on July 4th. We had a parade float in the parade at St. Charles. St. Charles, over the front down there? Yeah, everybody was in yellow, try to meet the color shirts. And we were handing out flowers and collecting signatures afterwards. But even from the get-go at that, we just didn't have enough volunteers. And that's the biggest problem we have as far as approaching the district. We just don't have enough people to walk. Now, we did buy the voter roll. We know who we got a target for the districts. So it's just not a wheelie-nilly, what's been knocking on everybody's door. We're going to the voters who already voted on it, showing them the original ballot measure and saying, you've been tricked. You've been duped. Do you remember this? Yes. And 95% of them are signing it and saying, yeah, that's not when I want it. So I can't stress enough how much we need people when it gets warm again to go out and do this. To make up for the deficiency of the time lost with the cold weather. So do you have to live in the county in order to collect the signatures? No, you do not. You have to get signatures from people in the county. So we've been to several different events. October fest, we collected signatures. And there are a few other ones I forget what they were. But we have the size of St. Charles County. And that's the only time we collect them because we don't want to go to St. Louis. And when we get half the signatures right. Right, right. With the election cycle coming up. There are plenty of politicians that have people out here missing. Do you have any contact to see them? No, we haven't. And you know, I'd say it's probably one of our big downfalls that we would be trying to put the saw in our shoulders. You know, just recently I started handing out these petitions because we're in a dire desperate need. If somebody wants to collect them, we can give you walking maps. I've already talked to Tony. He's willing to do that. If you want to go around your own neighborhoods. If you live in St. Charles County and you want to go around your neighborhoods. We'll furnish you with the list. You go up and knock on the doors. We'll furnish you with the petitions. And it's very short and sweet and bold up here. It just says we want to keep the position of elected chair for repeal of the creation of the county police department. And this is our wording for the ballot. Our arrestor is a rich chrysmer. So it's very easy to sell to people. You just need people to get out and do it. So that's my plea to all of you. If you want to do it, you want to do it in your neighborhood. Give me your name and email and I'll have Tony contact you. He'll email your list. You can go print out at home. You can just walk and go get them. One last question. As soon as you get the petitions, you need which ballot will be on August 3rd? November. November, the next November cycle. Which will be before the creation of it. So it's still time to stop it. It'll be a time for people to vote before it's actually created. I know they've already started doing things that seems, but we're hoping we can stop it. It's definitely an important issue as Mr. Jeff has explained. And I just didn't know how many people knew how invested I was in it. I just wanted to let you know.