Sheriff Mark Lamb

So by the time, about six months, eight months later, my son actually starts to pull out of it and he cleans his life up and he goes cold turkey, from fentanyl to cold turkey.

And he had been clean about a year and a half.

And he ends up going and doing six months in my jail.

You want to know how you treat your inmates?

Put your own kid in your own jail and you'll find out real quick.

But my son had to do his own time.

And I made him do his time straight up like anybody else would.

And so my son gets out of jail.

And I tell you this whole story because it's part of why I'm running for the Senate.

When he gets out, I tell him, I said, look, I'm considering running for the Senate, this is October.

And my son says, I said, but if I do it, they're gonna drag everything about you hitting the guy on the bike, it's gonna come back full front, full force.

They're gonna trash you, they're gonna trash me.

And he's like, dad, I know, I understand, but I think you gotta do what you gotta do, you're doing it for the right reasons.

And so I don't know that I would have done it,

Fast forward to December.

He's working.

He's got his fiance.

His baby is 11 months old.

And my son goes to work one day.

It's December 16th.