{"id":85853,"date":"2017-10-25T03:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85853"},"modified":"2017-10-24T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:20:43","slug":"letter-supports-ball-for-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85853","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Supports Ball for sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58690\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>To the Editor:<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please join me in keeping John Ball working as our Madison County Sheriff. John Ball was appointed as Undersheriff seven years ago by then-Sheriff Allen Riley to serve as second in command for the day-to-day operations of the entire 150 person agency including; the correctional facility, criminal division, road patrol, civil division, traffic safety coordinator, child advocacy center and the STOP DWI program.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Since Riley&#8217;s departure to accept a position with the state several months ago, John has well managed the Office of interim Sheriff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>John has also volunteered as a Board member of BRIDGES, a local organization dedicated to fighting drug and alcohol abuse throughout the County. In addition, he served on the Board of Directors\u00a0of the Madison County Community Action\u00a0 Partnership.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0He earned the Madison County Community Services Board Award for his outstanding contributions in the area of alcoholism and substance abuse and is a recipient of numerous endorsements from law enforcement agencies.<\/div>\n<div>\nA Veteran of the US Navy, John Ball has honorably served our Nation as well as our County and demonstrated his outstanding qualifications for the position of Madison County Sheriff.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Therefore, without reservation, I urge you to vote <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1453367109\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Nov. 7<\/span><\/span>\u00a0for John Ball for Sheriff of Madison County.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Marianne Simberg, Oneida<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Please join me in keeping John Ball working as our Madison County Sheriff. John Ball was appointed as Undersheriff seven years ago by then-Sheriff Allen Riley to serve as second in command for the day-to-day operations of the entire 150 person agency including; the correctional facility, criminal division, road patrol, civil division, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58690,"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_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":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mkJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85853","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=85853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}