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Sheriff iRAELITE October 31, 1986 Page 27 Continued from page 1 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 Continued from page 1 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. 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I don’t fit the 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. 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