Sheriff Alan Cloninger: The party I grew up in ‘no longer exists’
A North Carolina sheriff is leaving the Democratic Party, blasting the “new Democrats in Washington” who “attack and degrade all law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day.”
“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.”