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The deputy took his badge back
Cam Hunt, the Marine veteran terminated by Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones last October for simply announcing he was running against him, defeated the 28-year incumbent Tuesday by 307 votes. Jones fired Hunt on the spot when Hunt came to him as a professional courtesy to say he intended to run — and then made that firing the centerpiece of his defense. Hunt made it the centerpiece of his campaign. Voters sided with the deputy. Jones, who hadn’t faced an opponent since 2002, is done. Hunt takes over a department he’ll likely enroll in the ICE 287(g) program on day one — something Jones refused to do, a decision that looked a lot worse after a Guatemalan national wanted on a rape warrant shot two Lee County deputies with an AK-47 the morning after Hunt called Jones out for it at a candidate forum. As one local editorial put it: “I want a lawman, not a politician.” Lee County agreed.
Wahl threw the Never Trumper punch. Allen had the receipts.…