{"id":288854,"date":"2014-01-17T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=288854"},"modified":"2014-01-18T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T22:57:16","slug":"furlow-says-hes-ready-to-fight-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=288854","title":{"rendered":"Furlow Says He&#8217;s Ready to Fight Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/01\/John-Furlow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/01\/John-Furlow-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Furlow\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-288876\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Major General John Furlow says he&#8217;s ready to go to court.  Furlow is running against current Smith County Judge Joel Baker.  But KETK reports he&#8217;s also in the middle of a lawsuit with the state.  That lawsuit claims Furlow was getting paid twice for the same job during his military service.   Furlow responded to the suit, saying he was not &#8220;double dipping&#8221; and plans to fight this to the end.   Furlow says, &#8220;This is something, when I made my announcement in September, I disclosed&#8230; this is not something I&#8217;ve walked away from.&#8221;  He says his campaign is &#8220;about the issues of a failed administration that continues to fail and make the wrong decisions for the citizens of Smith County.&#8221;   Furlow is being sued for nearly $130,000.  But the candidate maintains the state actually owes him money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Major General John Furlow says he&#8217;s ready to go to court. Furlow is running against current Smith County Judge Joel Baker. But KETK reports he&#8217;s also in the middle of a lawsuit with the state. That lawsuit claims Furlow was getting paid twice for the same job during his military service. Furlow responded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=288854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Furlow Says He&#8217;s Ready to Fight Lawsuit<\/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-288854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 00:03:32","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\/288854","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=288854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288877,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288854\/revisions\/288877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}