Petition backs recall of LaMoure’s sheriff

· IN-FORUM ·: "Petitions are circulating in LaMoure County to recall the recently elected sheriff, Robert Fernandes.

“It is just that he is totally unqualified to be a sheriff,” said Stacey Ellingson of Edgeley, one of the organizers of the petition drive. “It would be like letting a doctor practice while he is going to school.”

Fernandes released information during his campaign stating he served on a “ship’s security team” in the Navy and completed the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Academy in California.

He did not work in the law enforcement field, but as a carpenter in Southern California, before moving in 1995 to Jud, where he also did construction work."