{"id":48603,"date":"2024-08-08T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=48603"},"modified":"2024-08-08T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:12:32","slug":"grady-judd-backstabs-magas-cdfers-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/08\/08\/grady-judd-backstabs-magas-cdfers-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Grady Judd backstabs MAGAs\/CDFers, yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Billy Townsend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My fellow Republicans, the belligerent old man wearing the Polk County sheriff uniform has no loyalties — just marks, weird fanboys, and wealthy suck-ups.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A few days ago, someone flew this uniform from to Florida to Texas to speak at a thing called the \u201cRemnant Alliance\u2019s Pastors Network\u201d conference in Dallas, Texas<\/a>. The Remnant Alliance is what you would expect.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The head and the hands on display in this picture from Dallas belong to a belligerent old man named Grady Judd. But the Polk County sheriff\u2019s uniform belongs to me \u2014 and you \u2014 as law-abiding, taxpaying citizens of Polk County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public employees you and I pay will not tell me \u2014 or you \u2014 who paid to fly our uniform to Texas. I have asked nicely. The response, from Grady\u2019s long-suffering and decent spokesman Scott Wilder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sheriff was not compensated for speaking at the conference. I\u2019ve asked for and public records related to the trip\u2014I\u2019ll get back to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey Billy: it was not an official PCSO trip. No PCSO funds were spent. It was a private trip.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That is not a private uniform; it is a public uniform. Thus, my<\/strong><\/em> follow-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not trying to be a jerk. I understand not PCSO funded. But is it really sheriff\u2019s position that it\u2019s nobody\u2019s business who paid for that trip \u2014 flight, lodging etc? He\u2019s in full dress uniform representing the people of Polk County in his full dress uniform. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let me just ask this again: will you tell me who or what paid for the sheriff\u2019s trip?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

No answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was almost certainly Steve Maxwell, the gross CCDF<\/s> CDF godfather who brought the criminal James Dunn to Polk<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The most obvious connection between the weird \u201cRemnant Alliance\u201d and the weird Grady Judd is the very<\/strong><\/em> weird Steve Maxwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s the rich guy \u2014 another inheritance nepo-baby, as I understand it \u2014 who created the County Citizen Defending Freedom (CCDF), which changed its name to Citizens Defending Freedom (CDF) because Polk County\u2019s normal people kicked its ass so badly here over the last few years.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Maxwell \u2014 despite warnings from Hannah Petersen<\/a> \u2014 recruited the criminal James Dunn to run GOP school board campaigns in 2022 on behalf of the CCDF<\/s> CDF. Dunn was convicted of 2022 election crimes in Polk<\/a>. Maxwell\u2019s a big supporter of January 6th lynch mob supporter<\/a>s, who thinks you\u2019re an AINO (American in Name Only)<\/a> if you\u2019re not. He was putting together an enemies list of Polk County businesses, schools, teachers, and professors.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any normal human being<\/a> interested in leading any group of Americans would stay far away from a group so maliciously, destructively, criminally weird \u2014 especially a \u201cnormal\u201d sworn law enforcement leader. Not Grady. He gets weird with<\/strong><\/em> them, on-site, with our<\/strong><\/em> uniform \u2014 on somebody else\u2019s dime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would bet all<\/strong><\/em> Steve Maxwell\u2019s money that Steve Maxwell paid for Grady\u2019s trip. A \u201cPatriot Mobile\u201d Facebook post <\/a>about the conference connected them quite closely.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Took your travel money, vibed with your people in Texas, then shivved your candidate with our uniform<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Considering all that \u201cpushing back against leftist woke ideologies in our schools and government,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> you might, dear MAGAs and CDFers, expect Sheriff Remnant to endorse your weird anti-woke, Steve Maxwell-backed candidate in a Polk County School Board race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You would be wrong \u2014 because you are suckers and marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically upon landing back in Florida, Sheriff Remnant rewarded Steve Maxwell by endorsing the candidate I\u2019m<\/strong><\/em> going to vote for, not the anti-woke lady Steve Maxwell wants to foist on us.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bro, that is cold<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grady and I are on the same side<\/strong><\/em>, laughing at you. Peep that smile. It\u2019s almost as bright as Kamala\u2019s. After all, Grady hasn\u2019t even endorsed the snarling, gross, old, lynch mob felon ya\u2019ll want to be dictator<\/a>. LOL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you, just like Steve Maxwell, are gonna sit there and take it \u2014 quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the $1,000 Maxwell gave to Rebekah Ricks, who challenging Sarabeth Wyatt. Ricks is backed by the same basic people who backed T.I.T.S. Nolte<\/a> and James Dunn\u2019s failed candidates in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n

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You might call her campaign a \u201cremnant\u201d of a very different time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t give tragic (or broken) people power<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Sarabeth Wyatt and Rebekah Ricks squared off once before \u2014 during the 2016 campaign. I was running for a different school board seat at that time, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came to know Rebekah and Sarabeth fairly well \u2014 and liked them both as people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may surprise you that I voted for Rebekah in the 4-person primary \u2014 (and then for Sarabeth in the general against Becky Troutman, who is now trying to become a county commissioner in her latest thirsty attempt to join Polk County\u2019s elected status club.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tragedy of Rebekah Ricks is that deep down, I don\u2019t think she\u2019s really<\/strong><\/em> a CDFer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many ways, in 2016, she symbolized the cross-partisan, cross-cultural humane education coalition my campaign built in winning my election on the night of Trump with 60 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebekah and I both rejected Jeb Bush \u2014 and Florida\u2019s brutal, test-defined, de-humanizing version of \u201ccommon core,\u201d which persists today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebekah operated in the home school and voucher world, which consists largely of people fleeing the failed test-punish-grift model of education that Jeb Bush\u2019 cronies have imposed on the children and parents and teachers of public schools for the sake of making a buck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebekah also understood and articulated how much of voucher and home school world was gross and grifty. She wanted to improve it. I think 2016 Rebekah and I could have worked well together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, Rebekah, for whatever reason, has not been able to follow where her 2016 thoughtfulness and honesty should have taken her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cMoms-for-Whatever\u201d scams and book-banning and weird sex obsessions and gross grifter CDF DeSantism has tightened its grip on her. And she\u2019s unwilling or unable to escape it, as the rest of the county and country increasingly comes to understand and reject it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to know where the wind is blowing, Rebekah (and MAGAs), just look at Grady<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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To my knowledge, this is only<\/strong><\/em> endorsement the Polk Sheriff\u2019s Office uniform has issued in a local Polk County race this cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not because Grady loves Sarabeth; it\u2019s because the status club of Polk County does not want another embarrassing T.I.T.S. Nolte<\/a> on the School Board. And that\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> what Steve Maxwell and the CDF have reduced you to, Rebekah \u2014 a female T.I.T.S. Nolte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How genuinely sad. That\u2019s not sarcasm. I mean it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 Rebekah is a tragic version of the 2016 version. But I also have an iron law of politics: never give tragic or broken people power out of pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My fellow Republicans, don\u2019t let Grady play all sides in our gross factional grifter battles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My fellow Republicans, what should you make of your sheriff playing you like fiddles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know, that\u2019s up to you. I just see an angry old politician with no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself. If he\u2019s on my side of an election; it\u2019s only because he thinks my side is winning<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once wrote that Grady\u2019s superpower is his ability to sense the enemy of any crowd he\u2019s speaking to and act like he\u2019s an ally in fighting it. When he\u2019s talking to the Remnants on the anti-woke dime, it\u2019s all I hate the libs, just like Jesus does<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he\u2019s back home talking to the status club, it\u2019s all get a load of these freaks<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of your own manhood and self-respect<\/a>, my fellow Republicans, you should not let him get away with that. The Republican party around here is splintering along so many factional lines that it became easy for me to join it so I can help that process along.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grady intends to play every side<\/strong><\/em> in that splintering. Are you going to let him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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