{"id":28265,"date":"2013-11-20T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=28265"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T23:05:04","slug":"sheriff-scott-responds-to-radels-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/11\/sheriff-scott-responds-to-radels-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Scott Responds<br> to Radel&#8217;s Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28266\" title=\"Lee-County-Sheriff-Mike-Scott\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lee-County-Sheriff-Mike-Scott-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lee-County-Sheriff-Mike-Scott-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lee-County-Sheriff-Mike-Scott.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The cocaine arrest and subsequent plea deal by Congressman Trey Radel has fueled speculation about a possible run next year for the 19th District seat by Lee County\u00a0Sheriff Mike Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Scott denied any interest in running for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Congressman Radel&#8217;s arrest and guilty plea to misdemeanor cocaine possession, the Sheriff released this statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news of Radel&#8217;s involvement with drugs is disappointing, and I hope he regains control of his life for the sake of a beautiful 2 year old boy and his wife.\u00a0 Beyond that, Southwest Florida expects and deserves better in our Representative.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On a side note, the events of the past 24 hours have again fueled speculation and questions from my constituents and the news media as to any personal political interest in running for congress.\u00a0 As I&#8217;ve made publicly known, I am certainly flattered by such consideration, however, the citizens of Lee County elected me to be their sheriff for a term of four years.\u00a0 I remain committed to fulfilling that responsibility to the end of this term with no other political aspirations except being Lee County Sheriff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cocaine arrest and subsequent plea deal by Congressman Trey Radel has fueled speculation about a possible run next year for the 19th District seat by Lee County\u00a0Sheriff Mike Scott.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}