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Plumb to run for Potsdam town justice

Posted 9/10/18

To the Editor: My name is Kenneth “Juddy” Plumb and I am announcing my candidacy for the position of town justice in the Town of Potsdam on the Republican ballot in November. Being a North …

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Plumb to run for Potsdam town justice

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To the Editor:

My name is Kenneth “Juddy” Plumb and I am announcing my candidacy for the position of town justice in the Town of Potsdam on the Republican ballot in November.

Being a North Country native, I was born and raised in Norfolk and a 1984 graduate from Norwood-Norfolk Central School. My military experience includes an enlistment in the United States Army as a combat military policeman, assigned to XVIII Airborne Corp. in Ft. Bragg, NC, with deployments to Germany, Egypt, Panama and Honduras. I continued my education at SUNY Canton earning an associate’s degree in criminal justice.

I currently live at 345 Lakeshore Drive in Norwood. I have three children, Thomas who is currently serving in the United States Army as a 1st Lieutenant; Megan who is presently serving in the United States Air Force as an Airman First Class, with both currently stationed in Anchorage Alaska and Madelyn who is a freshman at NNCS.

My work experience includes serving with the New York State Police for 20 years as a trooper, canine handler, BCI investigator, and School Resource Officer, retiring in 2008. For the past ten years I have and continue to teach criminal justice at the St. Lawrence Lewis BOCES Seaway Career and Technical Education Center.

Community service is one of my core values. I am a member of the American Legion Post 925, Potsdam Elks Lodge 2074, and president of the Adopt a Platoon-444 Program. I have and continue to coach youth sports in our community for over 30 years.

I believe ethics, integrity, and equality are the principles of justice. I will be fair, but firm in holding people accountable for their choices and behaviors.

My platform: Alternative sentencing – A court should not be another way to collect taxes. A motor vehicle violation should not be punishable harsher then a crime against a human being. Minor crimes are the stepping-stones of progressively bad choices. The teenager should be dealt with constructively versus a predicate violent abuser or someone who chooses to violate court orders leading to tragic felonies.

Accountability – A town justice needs to be available 24 hours a day, not just two days a month, which includes nigh time arraignments. I will work with Town Justice James Mason to make sure we are available at all hours.

“The highest appreciation of our nation is not to utter words but it is to live by them.” JFK

Kenneth ‘Juddy’ Plumb

Potsdam town justice candidate