Miller: 



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Baum: 

 Miller: 



Baum: 

 Miller: 





nobody fooled me. I got elected by a bigger majority 

 the second time. This is a beautiful thing, when you 

 do your job. Because you can tell them what to do 

 with their votes, and brother, when you can do that, 

 why this is wonderful. A peace officer, this is 

 what he has to do. If he has to cater to them, if 

 he has to get down on his knees to them, then he 

 can't do his job right, and this is what's wrong 

 about a sheriff's job. Some of them have to be 

 elected. I didn't have to be elected. 





Perhaps that job should be appointive 



No, still if you make it appointive of course you'll 



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have sledge hammer tactics from whoever appoints you. 

 Then you're under a politician. 



Oh, I had my battles. I had my battles, statewide 

 and every other way. They tried to get me and it 

 didn't do f em any good; long as I didn't break any 

 laws and long as I was honest and fair to everybody, 

 there was no way they could touch me. This was a 

 wonderful thing to me, I could just laugh at them, 

 sit there and laugh at them* Just like the cat 

 that had just licked the rat and was licking his 



