{"id":859913,"date":"2020-03-13T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=859913"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:05:31","slug":"judge-garmon-will-face-harris-in-constable-precinct-1-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=859913","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Garmon Will Face Harris in Constable Precinct 1 Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — After a controversial campaign season for the Smith County Precinct 1 Constable position, Judge Jack Skeen ruled that a Democratic runoff will be held — but it won’t include Willie Mims. According to our news partner KETK, voters will now choose between incumbent Bobby Garmon and corrections officer Curtis Traylor Harris. In 2019, Garmon filed a lawsuit claiming Mims didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t meet the requirements to be on the ballot. Garmon said out of the 200 signatures submitted to run, 85 of them were invalid. In January, a temporary injunction was approved, allowing Mims to remain on the ballot during the March primaries — and Mims ended up winning a majority of the votes. But unless Skeen’s ruling is overturned on appeal, Mims won’t be the precinct’s next constable. There is no Republican challenger in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — After a controversial campaign season for the Smith County Precinct 1 Constable position, Judge Jack Skeen ruled that a Democratic runoff will be held — but it won’t include Willie Mims. According to our news partner KETK, voters will now choose between incumbent Bobby Garmon and corrections officer Curtis Traylor Harris. In 2019, … Continue reading Judge: Garmon Will Face Harris in Constable Precinct 1 Runoff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":859914,"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-859913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 04:31:04","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\/859913","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859918,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859913\/revisions\/859918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/859914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}