— Sally Jo Sorensen (@sallyjos) November 7, 2022
Last Thursday, Deena Winter reported for the Minnesota Reformer, Crockett’s husband says ‘we need’ sheriffs, deputies ready to respond to election fraud.
On Monday afternoon, the Rochester Post Bulletin reported both the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and the Rochester Police Department didn't feel Marty Probst's call for aid was necessary.
Mark Wasson writes in Olmsted County Sheriff's Office rejects call for election SWAT team:
In a rejection of a Republican GOP candidate's spouse's call for law enforcement to form Election Day SWAT teams to enforce election laws, law enforcement in Olmsted County they will only be responding to polling places following a normal call for service.
Marty Probst, the husband of Kim Crockett, the Republican nominee for Minnesota's secretary of state, made the comments at an Oct. 6 Liberty Tea Party Patriots meeting in Champlin, Minnesota.
“If you’ve got friends or family or whatever in sheriff’s deputies or sheriffs — we need them on Election Day. That’s part of the SWAT team to get out when certain places don’t follow the rules that they’re supposed to," Probst said at the event.
Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Togerson rejected Probst's general request and added that his office did not have a contract or a request for off-duty deputies to provide security in that manner.
"We would respond to a polling place if there was a specific call for assistance, just like we would respond to any other call for assistance," Olmsted County Sheriff's Capt. James Schueller wrote in an email to the Post Bulletin. . . .
Read about the whole mess at the Post Bulletin and Minnesota Reformer.
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