{"id":688961,"date":"2018-02-05T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T21:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=688961"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:36:06","slug":"grassroots-america-still-backing-putman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=688961","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots America Still Backing Putman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/joann_fleming_ketk_pic_48291_ver1.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/joann_fleming_ketk_pic_48291_ver1.0-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-378649\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; Grassroots America says it is not changing its endorsement in the Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s race. At a Monday morning news conference, the group&#8217;s executive director, JoAnn Fleming, said they are still backing Assistant  Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman. Fleming said they made the decision after reviewing Putman&#8217;s cases and an internal audit released by District Attorney Matt Bingham that was critical of the candidate. She said Putman&#8217;s work was also reviewed by outside, independent groups. Fleming said, after all of this, they dismissed the entire internal audit and will continue to endorse Putman.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fleming said decision was based on three key points:<br \/>\n1. There was no reprimand or sign of poor performance of any kind in Putman&#8217;s Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s Office file.<\/p>\n<p>2. If the policy broken by Putman was so important, why wasn&#8217;t District Attorney Matt Bingham enforcing them prior to this election?<\/p>\n<p>3. The buck stops with the boss. It the district attorney&#8217;s job to ensure policies are in place and enforceable to accomplish justice system and protect the taxpayers of Smith County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Grassroots America says it is not changing its endorsement in the Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s race. At a Monday morning news conference, the group&#8217;s executive director, JoAnn Fleming, said they are still backing Assistant Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman. Fleming said they made the decision after reviewing Putman&#8217;s cases and an internal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=688961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grassroots America Still Backing Putman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":378649,"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-688961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 04:42:14","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\/688961","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=688961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689119,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688961\/revisions\/689119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}