Kevin Bryant Had Grievance With Herb Hincks

May Explain Bryant's Involvement With False Forms

It is the season of choose your successor. In recent weeks the clerks of court of Lee, Moore, and Chatham County have resigned from office, each with just about two years left in office. In their cases, the Chief Superior Judge will name a successor who will have the advantage of incumbency in the 2010 election. This is how the last two sheriff's initially came to office in neighboring Moore County. Naturally, usually the person resigning the position and the individual or group filing the vacancy have come to some agreement on who that successor shall be.With a little less than two years in Sheriff Billy Bryant's term, Kevin Bryant, then the Chief Deputy, persuaded Billy Bryant to take the same approach provided that he (Kevin Bryant could) get the necessary appointment from the county commissioners. Doing so would have allowed him to face the assumed challenger, Tracy Carter, as an incumbent. Instead he could only run as Chief Deputy who had to publicly admit he wasn't allowed to make any policy decisions in the sheriff's office, a comment considered by many a turning point in the race.