Grady Judd backstabs MAGAs/CDFers, yet again. Thoughts and prayers.

My fellow Republicans, the belligerent old man wearing the Polk County sheriff uniform has no loyalties -- just marks, weird fanboys, and wealthy suck-ups.

A few days ago, someone flew this uniform from to Florida to Texas to speak at a thing called the “Remnant Alliance’s Pastors Network” conference in Dallas, Texas. The Remnant Alliance is what you would expect.

The head and the hands on display in this picture from Dallas belong to a belligerent old man named Grady Judd. But the Polk County sheriff’s uniform belongs to me — and you — as law-abiding, taxpaying citizens of Polk County.

The public employees you and I pay will not tell me — or you — who paid to fly our uniform to Texas. I have asked nicely. The response, from Grady’s long-suffering and decent spokesman Scott Wilder:

The Sheriff was not compensated for speaking at the conference. I’ve asked for and public records related to the trip—I’ll get back to you.

And …

Hey Billy: it was not an official PCSO trip. No PCSO funds were spent. It was a private trip.

That is not a private uniform; it is a public uniform. Thus, my follow-up:

Not trying to be a jerk. I understand not PCSO funded. But is it really sheriff’s position that it’s nobody’s business who paid for that trip — flight, lodging etc? He’s in full dress uniform representing the people of Polk County in his full dress uniform. 

So let me just ask this again: will you tell me who or what paid for the sheriff’s trip?

No answer.

It was almost certainly Steve Maxwell, the gross CCDF CDF godfather who brought the criminal James Dunn to Polk

The most obvious connection between the weird “Remnant Alliance” and the weird Grady Judd is the very weird Steve Maxwell.

He’s the rich guy — another inheritance nepo-baby, as I understand it (a reader tells me he doesn’t think this is true, so I’ll just leave it to Steve to say where he got his capital) — who created the County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) back in 2021 or so. The CDF has since changed its name to Citizens Defending Freedom (CDF) because Polk County’s normal people kicked its ass so badly here over the last few years.

Steve Maxwell — despite warnings from Hannah Petersen — recruited the criminal James Dunn to run GOP school board campaigns in 2022 on behalf of the CCDF CDF. Dunn was convicted of 2022 election crimes in Polk. Maxwell’s a big supporter of January 6th lynch mob supporters, who thinks you’re an AINO (American in Name Only) if you’re not. He was putting together an enemies list of Polk County businesses, schools, teachers, and professors.

Any normal human being interested in leading any group of Americans would stay far away from a group so maliciously, destructively, criminally weird — especially a “normal” sworn law enforcement leader. Not Grady. He gets weird with them, on-site, with our uniform — on somebody else’s dime.

I would bet all Steve Maxwell’s money that Steve Maxwell paid for Grady’s trip. A “Patriot Mobile” Facebook post about the conference connected them quite closely.

Took your travel money, vibed with your people in Texas, then shivved your candidate with our uniform

Considering all that “pushing back against leftist woke ideologies in our schools and government,” you might, dear MAGAs and CDFers, expect Sheriff Remnant to endorse your weird anti-woke, Steve Maxwell-backed candidate in a Polk County School Board race.

You would be wrong — because you are suckers and marks.

Basically upon landing back in Florida, Sheriff Remnant rewarded Steve Maxwell by endorsing the candidate I’m going to vote for, not the anti-woke lady Steve Maxwell wants to foist on us.

Bro, that is cold.

Grady and I are on the same side, laughing at you. Peep that smile. It’s almost as bright as Kamala’s. After all, Grady hasn’t even endorsed the snarling, gross, old, lynch mob felon ya’ll want to be dictator. LOL.

And you, just like Steve Maxwell, are gonna sit there and take it — quietly.

Here is the $1,000 Maxwell gave to Rebekah Ricks, who is challenging Sarabeth Wyatt. Ricks is backed by the same basic people who backed T.I.T.S. Nolte and James Dunn’s failed candidates in 2022.

You might call her campaign a “remnant” of a very different time.

Don’t give tragic (or broken) people power

Indeed, Sarabeth Wyatt and Rebekah Ricks squared off once before — during the 2016 campaign. I was running for a different school board seat at that time, too.

I came to know Rebekah and Sarabeth fairly well — and liked them both as people.

It may surprise you that I voted for Rebekah in the 4-person primary — (and then for Sarabeth in the general against Becky Troutman, who is now trying to become a county commissioner in her latest thirsty attempt to join Polk County’s elected status club.)

The tragedy of Rebekah Ricks is that deep down, I don’t think she’s really a CDFer.

In many ways, in 2016, she symbolized the cross-partisan, cross-cultural humane education coalition my campaign built in winning my election on the night of Trump with 60 percent of the vote.

Rebekah and I both rejected Jeb Bush — and Florida’s brutal, test-defined, de-humanizing version of “common core,” which persists today.

Rebekah operated in the home school and voucher world, which consists largely of people fleeing the failed test-punish-grift model of education that Jeb Bush’ cronies have imposed on the children and parents and teachers of public schools for the sake of making a buck.

Rebekah also understood and articulated how much of voucher and home school world was gross and grifty. She wanted to improve it. I think 2016 Rebekah and I could have worked well together.

Alas, Rebekah, for whatever reason, has not been able to follow where her 2016 thoughtfulness and honesty should have taken her.

The “Moms-for-Whatever” scams and book-banning and weird sex obsessions and gross grifter CDF DeSantism has tightened its grip on her. And she’s unwilling or unable to escape it, as the rest of the county and country increasingly comes to understand and reject it.

If you want to know where the wind is blowing, Rebekah (and MAGAs), just look at Grady.

To my knowledge, this is the only endorsement the Polk Sheriff’s Office uniform has issued in a local Polk County race this cycle.

It’s not because Grady loves Sarabeth; it’s because the status club of Polk County does not want another embarrassing CDF school board member on the School Board beyond the one we have. That’s what Steve Maxwell and the CDF have reduced you to, Rebekah.

How genuinely sad. That’s not sarcasm. I mean it.

The 2024 Rebekah is a tragic version of the 2016 version. But I also have an iron law of politics: never give tragic or broken people power out of pity.

My fellow Republicans, don’t let Grady play all sides in our gross factional grifter battles

My fellow Republicans, what should you make of your sheriff playing you like fiddles?

I don’t know, that’s up to you. I just see an angry old politician with no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself. If he’s on my side of an election; it’s only because he thinks my side is winning.

I once wrote that Grady’s superpower is his ability to sense the enemy of any crowd he’s speaking to and act like he’s an ally in fighting it. When he’s talking to the Remnants on the anti-woke dime, it’s all I hate the libs, just like Jesus does.

When he’s back home talking to the status club, it’s all get a load of these freaks.

For the sake of your own manhood and self-respect, my fellow Republicans, you should not let him get away with that. The Republican party around here is splintering along so many factional lines that it became easy for me to join it so I can help that process along.

Grady intends to play every side in that splintering. Are you going to let him?