Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Kim Bogart's campaign has come to an end and the Democrat says he won't seek the Pasco County Sheriff's seat again.
Pasco County Sheriff candidate Kim Bogart was hosting a watch party in the kitchen of his New Port Richey area home Tuesday night when it became clear voting wasn't going in his favor. Bogart’s most recent bid to become Pasco County’s top cop came to an end even before it was reported that votes from all precincts in Pasco had been tallied. Bogart, 60, is a former captain and major with the Pasco sheriff’s office. He hoped to oust incumbent Sheriff Chris Nocco. He ran his campaign this election season under the slogan "Public Safety, Not Politics." But early voting and absentee results alone, projected on a TV in Bogart’s home, showed Nocco was gaining the upper hand on Election Night by a large margin. Then precinct numbers started …
Republican Chris Nocco will serve a full four-year term in office.
The voters have decided. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco will keep his job. Nocco was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to fill out the term of former Sheriff Bob White when he retired in 2011. Tonight’s results mean that Nocco will get to serve his first full term in office. Nocco, a Republican, faced Democrat Kim Bogart in the race for Pasco’s top cop. Bogart is a former Pasco County Sheriff’s Office major who has decades’ of experience in law enforcement. He ran in 2008 against White, but lost by 4,002 votes. In today’s race, Nocco received 125,934 votes or 65.11 percent of the ballots cast with 105 of 110 precincts reporting in. Bogart garnered 67,493 votes or 34.89 percent. Results are considered unofficial until they are certified by …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Kim Bogart says he would hold agency to higher standard.
Kim Bogart, Democratic candidate for Pasco County Sheriff, has been digging into agency reports for information on the conduct of its employees. On Wednesday, he expressed concerns about what he found. In a press conference, Bogart, who is running against incumbent Sheriff Chris Nocco for the job of top cop, outlined four cases. In January, deputies went to the home of Tommy Garcia to make contact regarding an accusation that he had committed rape weeks earlier. He was not home, and they left. It’s unclear whether return visits were made. Another rape occurred weeks later. A different deputy arrested Garcia, who was charged with four counts of sexual battery, in February. “There is no excuse for delaying an arrest,” Bogart said. In …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Bogart wants Pasco County to have a sheriff’s office that’s 'connected to the community,' he says.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Longtime law enforcement officer and Pasco resident Kim Bogart is running on his record, he says.
Kim Bogart wants Pasco County to have a sheriff’s office that’s “connected to the community.” “I want deputies, and the employees of the sheriff’s office, to be engaged with the community; not to be Us and Them,” he said. “I would love to see it to where when a citizen asks: ‘Who do you work for?’ the deputy’s response is ‘I work for you.’” Bogart is running for Sheriff as a Democrat. He’s running against incumbent Sheriff Chris Nocco,a Republican. Nocco was appointed to the position of top cop by Gov. Rick Scott in April 2011 to finish out the term of predecessor Bob White. Bogart, 60, is a longtime Pasco resident. He joined the Pasco Sheriff’s Office in 1985. He worked for the agency for 16 years, ascending to the ranks of captain and …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Nocco won 85.25 percent of the vote in the in the primary Sheriff's Office race.
Mere minutes after the news was announced that Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco won the Republican nomination in today’s primary, he was already getting his supporters revved up for the next leg of his push to stay on the job for a full four-year term. “Pasco County has come out overwhelmingly to say: They love the sheriff’s office. They love the direction that the sheriff’s office is going, and they want us to continue to move forward,” Nocco told a crowd of supporters at a party in Odessa. The Pasco Supervisor of Elections Office reports that 85.25 percent of people who cast ballots in the primary voted for Nocco. Nocco soundly defeated the two other Republican contenders for sheriff: Maurice Radford and Roger Fortney. Radford had more than 25…
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11:28 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012
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