{"id":302411,"date":"2014-05-28T02:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302411"},"modified":"2014-05-29T02:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T07:24:46","slug":"ellis-defeats-patterson-in-smith-countys-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302411","title":{"rendered":"Ellis Defeats Patterson in Smith County&#8217;s GOP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/Jason-Ellis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/Jason-Ellis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Ellis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-302412\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 Smith County voters in the GOP primary runoff have elected Jason Ellis as judge of the County Court at Law. Since he has no Democratic opponent in November, he will be succeeding Thomas Dunn in January. In complete, but unofficial returns Ellis polled 6, 337 votes to Mike Patterson\u2019s 3.821 votes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In other voting in the Smith County GOP runoff:<br \/>\nLieutenant Governor<br \/>\nDan Patrick 6,978<br \/>\nDavid Dewhurst 3,132<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General<br \/>\nDan Branch 3,025<br \/>\nKen Paxton 6,882<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Agriculture<br \/>\nSid Miller 5,013<br \/>\nTommy Merritt 4,646<\/p>\n<p>Railroad Commissioner<br \/>\nRay Sitton 3,998<br \/>\nWayne Christian 5,456<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Primary<br \/>\nUnited States Senator<br \/>\nDavid M. Alameel 261<br \/>\nResha Rogers 126<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Agriculture<br \/>\nJim Hogan 228<br \/>\nRichard \u201cKinky\u201d Friedman 154<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Smith County voters in the GOP primary runoff have elected Jason Ellis as judge of the County Court at Law. Since he has no Democratic opponent in November, he will be succeeding Thomas Dunn in January. In complete, but unofficial returns Ellis polled 6, 337 votes to Mike Patterson\u2019s 3.821 votes.<\/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-302411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 04:28:46","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\/302411","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=302411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302413,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302411\/revisions\/302413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}