First, there was Shannon calling Cuccinelli’s request for a special session of the General Assembly in light of the Melendez-Diaz SCOTUS decision a “political stunt”.

Then there was Shannon saying Phil Hamilton should resign when the next Attorney General may very well be responsible for acting as a judge in Hamilton’s ethics complaint.

And now we have Shannon not knowing the different between a police department and a sheriff’s office.

He’s a know-nothing candidate.

Maybe this election season we conservatives can actually use these failures and win for once. One can only hope….and dimple the correct chad.

Does it surprise anyone that his knowledge of law enforcement roles is lacking when his ability to follow laws is apparently not there either?

I agree the guy’s not worth much otherwise, but don’t lots of people interchangeably use the terms “police” and “sheriff?” I know that if I tell people to call a deputy, I’d probably make the egregious error of saying “call the police department at ###-###-####.” I could probably come up with a recent date of when I used both terms in the same conversation.

I know there’s a bureaucratic distinction between the Richmond Police Department and the Northumberland County Sheriff’s Office, but if I were to ask a deputy in plain clothes where he works he’d probably say I work for the police department in Northumberland.

Let’s stick to nailing this guy on policy points, not conversational semantics, lest we become more like “that other party.”