North Carolina Sheriff Latest to Leave Democratic Party
5th August 2021
“The present Democratic Party has left me,” Gaston County sheriff Alan Cloninger said in a Wednesday statement. Cloninger, who calls himself a “conservative Democrat, as my father and family have always been,” said the party he grew up in “no longer exists.”
Cloninger, who announced he is retiring at the end of his term, specifically criticized the national Democratic Party for demeaning police officers, who “protect the people and in return are given no respect,” which he called “wrong and unjustified.”