Mr. Greg Williamson This is Me

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1. 1. Anderson Independent Mail: News

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   Published on: 6/8/2004   Last Visited: 6/9/2004

   In the Republican primary, Mr. Crenshaw, 56, received 9,339 votes and Mr. Skipper, 52, received 7,470 votes - ousting Greg Williamson, 35.
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   Greg Williamson, a traffic officer at the Anderson Police Department campaigned to improve the Sheriff's Office community relations and manpower. Despite a loss Tuesday, Mr. Williamson said he felt he was able to bring some important issues to the forefront.

2. 2. GreenvilleOnline.com - Anderson sheriff hopefuls debate experience

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   Published on: 5/3/2004   Last Visited: 5/4/2004

   The third candidate, Greg Williamson, touts his youth and independence from past administrations and problems.
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   Williamson, a U.S. Navy veteran, worked as a sheriff's deputy and on a special lake patrol before leaving for the Anderson Police Department, where he is in the traffic division and is working on a bachelor's degree in business administration at Southern Wesleyan University.
   
   Williamson said his youth is an asset because he can serve "as long as voters are satisfied. His ideas are new and his message is one of real change so "we don't go back to the problems we had before," he said.
   
   Crenshaw and Skipper represent past and present administrations, Williamson said.
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   They "had the chance to do good things for Anderson County and they dropped the ball," Williamson said.
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   Williamson has no management experience and much has changed since Crenshaw left law enforcement, Skipper said.
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   "We are paying for law enforcement that we are not getting," Williamson said. "The drug problem is being ignored. Burglaries are a major problem in Anderson County. And larcenies."
   
   The Sheriff's Office could be restructured to put 20 deputies on each shift - without going to Anderson County Council for more money - by changing to four 12-hour shifts, Williamson said. He'd use reserve officers and state constables, who are volunteers, to serve civil process papers and perform other tasks to free deputies for law enforcement duties.
   
   He would have the sheriff's narcotics division team up with municipal police departments to create a drug interdiction team across the county using mutual aid agreements rather than money to create manpower and support.
   
   He also would return sheriff's dispatch to the county 911 center but keep them under Sheriff's Office control in their own area, like the Highway Patrol does.
   
   "All the updated equipment and the computer center is already there and in place and the taxpayers have paid for it," Williamson said.

3. 3. Anderson Independent Mail: News

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   Published on: 6/1/2004   Last Visited: 6/2/2004

   The youngest candidate Greg Williamson will turn 36 on June 21 - days after the primary election. He was a graduate of Westside High School in 1986 and immediately went into the U.S. Navy, where he worked primarily as a supply clerk.
   
   "The closest I came to actual conflict was when the USS Starke was bombed by Iraqi planes about 60 miles away," he said.
   
   Mr. Williamson, whose own parents divorced when he was 3, has been married twice. He has three sons, 12-year-old Austin, 10-year-old Brandon and 4-year-old Daniel. He said that aside from his love of the Game Show Network, he also watches wrestling religiously with his oldest sons.
   
   An Anderson native, Mr. Williamson followed the lead of his father, Anderson police officer Donnie Williamson, into law enforcement.
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   But when Greg Williamson finished his active service in the Navy, there were no openings at the police department.
   
   He went instead to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office in 1989 as a patrol officer.
   
   "I was excited; I thought it was one of the best agencies," Mr. Williamson said, although he said his father wanted him to work for the city. "That was one of his requests - that I move to the Anderson Police Department before he died."
   
   In December 1993, Mr. Williamson's father died of cancer, with a police radio in his hospital room so he could keep up with the officers' work. The next year, the younger Mr. Williamson went to work as a city cop, where he still serves as a traffic officer.