Solicitor candidates in front of Walhalla audience

 

In their first three months on the job, each of the three men running for Solicitor indicates he will bring change.  With a week of campaigning left, candidates Wilson Burr, Rame Campbell, and David Wagner took part in a chamber of commerce forum that drew about 45 people last night to the Walhalla Civic Auditorium.  The question, from the moderator Zach Hinton, went first to Rame Campbell.  Campbell has prosecuted cases from the 10th Circuit office in Anderson, where he has detected a lack of cooperation between prosecutors and the cops.  And he wants them to be on the same page.  The problem that Campbell talked about in Anderson is not a problem in Oconee, in the view of candidate David Wagner.  But Wagner concedes there’s a morale problem among employees of the office, and that’s one of the first things he will address.  Candidate Wilson Burr says he doesn’t think the office employees are working hard enough and he intends to give them direction.  Burr vowed he’s going to move cases through the court and he won’t let those who are accused sit in jail year after year.