{"id":1531807,"date":"2022-06-28T22:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531807"},"modified":"2022-06-28T22:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T02:34:29","slug":"local-sheriff-ousts-incumbent-republican-in-mississippi-us-house-primary-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/local-sheriff-ousts-incumbent-republican-in-mississippi-us-house-primary-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Sheriff Ousts Incumbent Republican in Mississippi US House Primary Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flocal-sheriff-ousts-incumbent-republican-in-mississippi-us-house-primary-runoff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Mike Ezell, a local sheriff, defeated Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) in the June 28 GOP primary runoff for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mississippi\">Mississippi<\/a>\u2019s 4th Congressional District, marking the end of a race that intensified after a June 7 primary election split the vote among multiple candidates.<\/p>\n<p>With 83.9 percent of the ballots counted at 10:04 p.m., Ezell had 53.1 percent of the vote and was declared the winner by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>After Palazzo and Ezell finished first and second in the June 7 primary, every other candidate endorsed Ezell.<\/p>\n<p>The contest has been riven by dueling accusations of corruption and mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>Ezell, the sheriff of Jackson County, highlighted an ongoing investigation of Palazzo\u2019s alleged ethical lapses, including the personal use of money from his campaign to improve a riverfront property he expected to sell.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) <a href=\"https:\/\/ethics.house.gov\/sites\/ethics.house.gov\/files\/documents\/OCE%20Report%20and%20Findings_1.pdf\">reported<\/a> in 2021 that there is \u201csubstantial reason to believe\u201d those and similar accusations. The House Committee on Ethics has not yet followed up by forming a subcommittee on the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a cloud that\u2019s been hanging over his head for over a year,\u201d Ezell told The Epoch Times in a June 21 interview.<\/p>\n<p>Palazzo maintained he would be vindicated by a fuller investigation by the ethics committee, saying he would welcome such a move.<\/p>\n<p>In a June 21 interview with The Epoch Times, he called it \u201ca false political attack by my opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Ezell\u2019s leadership, meanwhile, the Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Department has not been free of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/mynbc15.com\/news\/local\/pascagoula-inmates-sue-over-jail-lights-that-wont-shut-off\">inmates sued Jackson County Jail<\/a> over alleged civil rights violations, citing lights in their cells that were on twenty-four hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached out to Ezell for comment.<\/p>\n<p> Some Veterans Wary of Palazzo <\/p>\n<p>Another flash point has been Palazzo\u2019s availability to local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-veterans\">veterans<\/a>. Palazzo is himself a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ezell, a local sheriff, defeated Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) in the June 28 GOP primary runoff for Mississippi\u2019s 4th Congressional District, marking the end of a race that intensified after a June 7 primary election split the vote among multiple candidates. With 83.9 percent of the ballots counted at 10:04 p.m., Ezell had 53.1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}