{"id":277156,"date":"2013-09-20T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=277156"},"modified":"2013-09-23T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:19:08","slug":"smith-county-election-picture-begins-to-take-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=277156","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Election Picture Begins to Take Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=277157\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-277157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/09\/thumb_voting-computer.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_voting-computer\" width=\"108\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-277157\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; There&#8217;s a new candidate for Smith County judge.   KETK reports Republican John Furlow made his announcement Thursday.   Furlow is a CPA, with more than 30 years of operational experience.  The military veteran doesn&#8217;t think the current leadership is preparing Smith County for the future.    According to Furlow, &#8220;Judge (Joel) Baker has a record of taking several pay raises while laying people off.  He has a record of closed sessions and those are the things that he has to address to the citizens of Smith County.&#8221;    Furlow said he&#8217;s not motivated by money.    and if elected he plans to take a pay cut.  Baker, also a Republican, wasn&#8217;t immediately available for comment and hasn&#8217;t announced his future plans.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Smith County Court at Law Judge Thomas Dunn is retiring next year.   He&#8217;s presided over the court for more than 15 years.  And The line is already forming for judge dunn&#8217;s replacement: Jim Huggler, Mike Patterson, and Jason Ellis all plan to run for the spot.   All three are Tyler attorneys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; There&#8217;s a new candidate for Smith County judge. KETK reports Republican John Furlow made his announcement Thursday. Furlow is a CPA, with more than 30 years of operational experience. The military veteran doesn&#8217;t think the current leadership is preparing Smith County for the future. According to Furlow, &#8220;Judge (Joel) Baker has a record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=277156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Election Picture Begins to Take Shape<\/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-277156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 16:50:24","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\/277156","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=277156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277382,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277156\/revisions\/277382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}