Editor’s note: These reader comments in response to the story reporting Sheriff Kevin Bond’s reaction to Presiding Commissioner Rusty Kahrs’ county budget message have been edited for publication in The Sedalia Democrat newspaper.
Go figure, the high sheriff made more money with a 200-plus person jail in 2007 than Starke did with a 32-person jail in 2003. Wow, Bond is a hero! You go get them.
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