{"id":82961,"date":"2017-07-21T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T09:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=82961"},"modified":"2017-07-20T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T00:21:41","slug":"ball-accepts-nomination-launches-campaign-for-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=82961","title":{"rendered":"Ball accepts nomination, launches campaign for Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33217\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=33217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33217\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33217\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ball-John-213x300.jpg?resize=213%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ball-John.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ball-John.jpg?resize=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ball-John.jpg?resize=400%2C563&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ball-John.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undersheriff John Ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Individual supporters and Madison County Democrat Party bring in signatures with a comfortable margin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Successfully securing the ballot by a comfortable margin, Madison County Undersheriff\/Acting Sheriff John Ball thanks the volunteers and the Madison County Democratic Committee members for their hard work and dedication in getting petition signatures, particularly given the short notice to acquire the needed\u00a0signatures.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to securing the Democratic line, Ball also acquired the Women\u2019s Equality Party line and the<br \/>\nrecent endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local #294.<\/p>\n<p>The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office has a history of excellence in keeping the residents and visitors to<br \/>\nMadison County safe. Acting Sheriff Ball is committed to maintaining that level of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a\u00a0member of this community, and after working alongside former Sheriff Al Riley for the past 6 years, it is\u00a0vitally important to me to preserve and protect the quality of life in Madison County,\u201d stated Ball.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Sheriff Ball has launched his website \u2013 ballforsheriff.org and Facebook page &#8211; facebook.com\/BallForSheriff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual supporters and Madison County Democrat Party bring in signatures with a comfortable margin Successfully securing the ballot by a comfortable margin, Madison County Undersheriff\/Acting Sheriff John Ball thanks the volunteers and the Madison County Democratic Committee members for their hard work and dedication in getting petition signatures, particularly given the short notice to acquire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-lA5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ball-John.jpg?fit=600%2C845&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}