8/4/2008
TIM UNRUH

GOODLAND — Being nearly 7,000 miles from home, Frank Tabor hasn’t shaken many hands or knocked on doors in his campaign for Sherman County Sheriff.
His only public speech, at a forum late last month, was presented by proxy.
Tabor, 32, has answered a few e-mails from Tikrit, Iraq, where he works for DynCorp, a company that contracts with the federal government to train Iraqi police.
He’s hopeful that family and friends have hung enough posters, passed out enough brochures in Sherman County and spread the word that he’ll prevail in today’s Republican primary against incumbent Kevin Butts.
Through his campaigners, which include wife, Misty, and brother-inlaw Jimmy Gillespie, a Goodland police officer, Frank Tabor is promising to improve relations with the city police and extend the sheriff’s department’s coverage of the county.
 “Everybody knows they don’t work after 2 a.m. That’s when I’m going to commit a crime, if I’m going to commit one,” Tabor said Monday afternoon in a phone interview (12:30 a.m. in Tikrit).
“The citizens deserve a better form of representation in that county than what they’re currently getting,” Frank Tabor said.

Reporter Tim Unruh can be reached at 822-1419 or by e-mail at tunruh@salina.com.
For more on Tabor's long-distance campaign, read Journal reporter Tim Unruh's story in Tuesday's Salina Journal.