{"id":46057,"date":"2024-05-30T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=46057"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:12:19","slug":"theodore-pink-tie-murray-filed-to-run-in-the-november-election-as-a-nonpartisan-candidate-against-grady-judd-for-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/05\/30\/theodore-pink-tie-murray-filed-to-run-in-the-november-election-as-a-nonpartisan-candidate-against-grady-judd-for-sheriff\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodore \u201cPink Tie\u201d Murray filed to run in the November election as a nonpartisan candidate against Grady Judd for Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Frostproof man has filed to challenge Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, citing what he says are examples of mistreatment by law enforcement as his motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Theodore \u201cPink Tie\u201d Murray filed to run in the November election as a nonpartisan candidate against Judd, a Republican. Judd, seeking a sixth four-year term, did not face any opponent in the past two elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, 46, ran for the U.S. House in District 17 in the past two elections, receiving less than 2% of the vote each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In discussing his reasons for running, Murray described three episodes \u2014 two from Polk County \u2014 in which he claims law enforcement either wrongly arrested him or failed to properly investigate crimes of which he was a victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray acknowledged that he has no law enforcement experience, which means he is \u201cnot tainted.\u201d Asked whether he has run an organization, he mentioned his experience leading crews on a rebuilding effort in the Panhandle after a hurricane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Wednesday, Judd had reported about $493,000 in campaign donations. A political committee, Friends of Grady Judd, also reports more than $374,000 in contributions. Murray has not reported any contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deadline for qualifying is June 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Frostproof man has filed to challenge Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, citing what he says are examples of mistreatment by law enforcement as his motivation. Theodore \u201cPink Tie\u201d Murray… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[8660],"class_list":["post-46057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-theodore-pink-tie-murray-filed-to-run-in-the-november-election-as-a-nonpartisan-candidate-against-grady-judd-for-sheriff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46059,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46057\/revisions\/46059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}