{"id":400163,"date":"2026-07-16T02:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:26:18","slug":"fresno-county-board-chair-defends-action-themed-promotional-video-for-state-of-the-county-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400163\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County board chair defends action-themed promotional video for State of the County address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A newly released promotional video for this year&#8217;s State of Fresno County Address features Fresno County Board of Supervisors Chairman Garry Bredefeld in a series of action-themed scenes, including riding in a military tank and handling firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The video shows Bredefeld emerging from a military tank while holding a rifle. He is also seen boarding a helicopter, riding an all-terrain vehicle and traveling in a Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bredefeld told Action News the $7,000 video was paid for entirely by the Fresno Chamber of Commerce and that no overtime was used by the Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He described the video as a tribute to law enforcement and defended the decision to include scenes showing him with firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When asked whether it was &#8220;a good look for the chairman of the board,&#8221; Bredefeld responded: &#8220;Absolutely, I love guns, and I also believe people should get CCWs and exercise their Second Amendment right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bredefeld said a longer version of the video will be shown during the State of the County event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The luncheon is scheduled for September 24.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A newly released promotional video for this year&#8217;s State of Fresno County Address&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[160685,154175,112,160684,622,14447,14364,114,113,36277,734,50786,5588,160683,294],"class_list":["post-400163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-160685","tag-ccw-permits","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-chamber-of-commerce","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-county-board-of-supervisors","tag-fresno-county-sheriffs-office","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-garry-bredefeld","tag-law-enforcement","tag-promotional-video","tag-second-amendment","tag-state-of-fresno-county-address","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}