{"id":1081561,"date":"2021-12-15T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1081561"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:45:06","slug":"griffith-withdraws-from-county-judge-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1081561","title":{"rendered":"Griffith withdraws from county judge race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1080141\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/sg-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/sg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/sg-175x174.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/sg.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>STARRVILLE &#8212; Retired appellate judge Sam Griffith has withdrawn from the race for Smith County judge, leaving Pct. 1 Commissioner Neal Franklin unopposed in the GOP Primary. According to county GOP Chairman David Stein, Griffith dropped out of the race the day after he announced his candidacy. He added that Griffith said he realized that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the right situation for him. Griffith himself told our news partner KETK, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I simply decided I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather edit my third book of devotionals and finish my fourth book than campaigning.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Current County Judge Nathaniel Moran plans to run for Rep. Louie Gohmert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s open seat in Congress. Gohmert is challenging Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STARRVILLE &#8212; Retired appellate judge Sam Griffith has withdrawn from the race for Smith County judge, leaving Pct. 1 Commissioner Neal Franklin unopposed in the GOP Primary. According to county GOP Chairman David Stein, Griffith dropped out of the race the day after he announced his candidacy. He added that Griffith said he realized that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1081561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Griffith withdraws from county judge race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1081565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/sg-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Griffith withdraws from county judge race","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 22:43:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/sg-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Griffith withdraws from county judge race","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081563,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081561\/revisions\/1081563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}