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Embattled sheriff toppled
Voters decisively ousted Sheriff Lance FitzGerald in the county’s first recall election, after a bipartisan effort to remove him from office succeeded a nd he was unseated in a landslide.
Unofficial election results show 2,527 votes, or 93 percent of the ballots cast in the recall election, were in favor of removing FitzGerald as sheriff. There were 196 votes in favor of keeping him in his position.
Voters elected Justin Perry, the former Ouray police chief and city administrator, as the new...