A candidate for Alpena County sheriff is under fire after the release of homophobic text messages sent from his county-owned phone.
Terry King, who is running in the August Republican primary for sheriff of Alpena County in northern Michigan against his former boss, Sheriff Steve Kieliszewski, sent violently homophobic text messages about two men holding hands in public when he worked as an undersheriff in 2013, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
King resigned from his post in June 2019 following an investigation into numerous allegations of impropriety and an ultimatum by Kieliszewski to resign or be fired, according to Freep.