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only city in Catoosa County,
which, with 44,000 residents, is
not that small as Georgia coun
ties go.
Despite the novelty of her
candidacy, Koplan says the cam
paign has started to look as
though she will win a runoff spot
in the Nov. 4 election.
“It looks very good for me all
of a sudden,” Koplan said. “It
wasn’t good in the beginning
because 1 was a female running,
but now people are looking at
me—at what 1 stand for. I’m one
of the front runners now.”
Koplan has told Catoosa
countians that she will conduct
“open meetings” once a month in
different locations around the
county “for people to air their
views.” She has also expressed a
particular interest in youth and
says she is the only candidate
with plans to invite Catoosa's
young people to the sheriffs
office, where they can go “to talk
with, not just a sheriff, but a
friend,” she said.
Koplan said she has been in
terested in law enforcement all
her life. She is a licensed private
investigator, who owns her own
security company. And she was
formerly a deputy sheriff in
Whitfield County.
“I’m asking people to try me
and let me prove to them that 1
can do it,” Koplan said. “And,
people are starting to like the
way 1 talk. |' ve been the only
candidate to put articles in the
paper about what exactly I’m
going to do as sheriff and what I
stand for. Nobody else has done
that. The other candidates only
put in the paper ’vote for so and
so.
Koplan and her husband, Erwin,
who’s originally from Dalton’
met in New York City. They got
married in Atlanta and relocated
to Ringgold where they’ve lived
lor 16 years. 1 he Koplans have
two children, one 3 years old, the
other 22 months. “My husband
has been for this from the begin
ning because he knows what type
of person 1 am,” she said. “He
knows 1 can handle the job.”
Koplan is not modest about
her abilities. “I’m a good person.
I’m extremely smart. I get along
very well with people from all
walks of life. Everybody’s crazv
about me. I just know how to
talk to people,” she says. “I want
to be able to help people as sher
iff and I have the ability to do it
because of my strong will. I gave
a speech recently at the court
house and I knocked them dead.
It was unreal.”
Koplan adds that her appear
ance initially put some people off
because she “doesn’t fit the type”
of a woman typically interested
in law enforcement and police
work. “I’m very good looking,”
she said. “I don’t look like a pri
vate investigator. I look like an
executive secretary or somebody
Shamir
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where in Israel.”
McKnight told reporters at the
American Colony Hotel that he
had heard that a judge remanded
Vanunu on Monday, Oct. 20, for
15 days. The clergyman traveled
to Israel last week to search for
Vanunu, who was a member of
the King’s Cross Anglican Church
in Sydney, where McKnight offi
ciates.
When asked to comment, a
spokesman for Prime Minister
Shamir said, “We do not know
anything about this matter.”
There have been reports in the
American media that Israeli
Mossad agents abducted Vanunu
and brought him back to Israel af
ter the former nuclear technician
at Dimona revealed nuclear se
crets to the London newspaper.
McKnight said that he had
first met Vanunu in May when
the Israeli had come to an open
house at his Sydney church. The
clergyman claims that Vanunu
became increasingly involved in
Christianity to the point where
he converted with the help of
King’s Cross clergyman.
Vanunu, according to Mc
Knight, had participated in a
number of church discussion
groups on “how a Christian re
sponds to modern-day problems
such as poverty, racism, nuclear
power and the like.” Vanunu dis
closed to the group that he worked
in a nuclear plant in Israel. He
then met Oscar Guerrerro, a
South American journalist em
ployed by the church in a variety
of maintenance tasks, including
the painting of the church fence.
McKnight said that Guerrerro
had told Vanunu that he could
“earn some money” by revealing
the story of Dimona’s nuclear
plant. It was then that Vanunu
sought out a news organization
that would print his story. He
eventually found the Sunday
Times.
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type.”
Even though law enforcement
appeals to Koplan, she says there
are times she considers her work
a “waste of time.”
“If you get a good lawyer you
can get out of almost anything
you do,” she said. “I’m very down
on the court system. To me if you
want to kill somebody, you might
as well kill five people.”
Koplan is also critical of some
aspects of the Catoosa County
Sheriffs Department she is run
ning to head, particularly its use
of Pontiac Trans Ams as patrol
cars.
“It’s always been asinine. It’s
like they’re playing TV,” she said.
“The other sheriff used to hire
young guys, 19- and 20-years-
old, put them into Trans Ams.
And they thought they were toys
and just acted like police. But
this is the real world and when
you’re out there protecting peo
ple’s lives and property, it’s not
supposed to be a game.”
Even though she is a Jewish
woman, born and bred in New
York City, Koplan says she has
had to overcome no stereotypical
prejudice in the campaign for
sheriff. “Everybody has been more
than nice to me, including the
candidates. I don’t hear anything
negative. It’s been a very clean
campaign.”
Having lived in Catoosa Coun
ty for 16 years, Koplan said most
people are already familiar with
her and know that she and her
husband are Jewish.
“My husband and I don’t hang
out on the fact that we’re Jew
ish,” she said. “I’m not hiding the
fact, but since nobody’s brought
it up, I don’t see the big discus
sion. It’s not an issue.”
Koplan says she thinks people
these days are no longer inter
ested in an individual’s religion.
“I don’t ask people when I
meet them what religion they
are,” Koplan said, adding with a
laugh, “If I get elected sheriff. I’m
not putting yarmulkes on all the
deputies. My religion just doesn’t
enter into it.”
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