{"id":200441,"date":"2012-07-11T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=200441"},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T22:23:20","slug":"grassroots-america-to-show-sheriff-candidate-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=200441","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots America to Show Sheriff Candidate Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=200442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-200442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/07\/sheriff_tapes.1341962388-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sheriff_tapes.1341962388\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-200442\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Grassroots America &#8211; We the People has agreed to a one-time showing of videos of the Smith County sheriff&#8217;s candidates.  The videos show interviews conducted by Grassroots America in its effort to choose a candidate for endorsement; the group ended up endorsing Larry Smith.  According to KETK, in June, Chris Green&#8217;s campaign asked that  tapes of all four original candidates be made public.  Now Grassroots has agreed to release only the tapes of the remaining candidates, Green and Smith.  <\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see the videos for yourself, you can do so tonight at Lakeview Church of the Nazarene, 10818 University Blvd. (Spur 248), Tyler.  The event runs from 6 till 8:30 p.m., including preliminary activities; total run time of the tapes is 2 hours and 15 minutes.  Grassroots will not allow recording of any kind at the event, even by the media.  Grassroots Executive Director JoAnn Fleming adds, &#8220;These videos will not be posted on-line, will not be made available for download, nor will they be reproduced in any way for distribution.&#8221;  Fleming said her group consulted its attorney before making its decision to show the tapes and implement the rules for the showing.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Grassroots America &#8211; We the People has agreed to a one-time showing of videos of the Smith County sheriff&#8217;s candidates. The videos show interviews conducted by Grassroots America in its effort to choose a candidate for endorsement; the group ended up endorsing Larry Smith. According to KETK, in June, Chris Green&#8217;s campaign asked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=200441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grassroots America to Show Sheriff Candidate Tapes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 09:43:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200441","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200531,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200441\/revisions\/200531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}