The pitot was wired as such that the positive wire was pulled in from the wing root area but the ground wire was short because the previous builder was going to locally ground the pitot tube heat connection.
I am planning on bringing all my ground wires back to the firewall "forrest of tabs" grounding block that I am installing airplane. Many times when you just "locally ground" an electrical item it increases the chances of getting "electrical noise" in the aircraft system that manifest itself as static or other electrical sounds on the radios or even causing erroneous readings/fluctuations on electrical instruments.
Since that is my plan I ran a power and ground wire to the pitot area. It was a bit of a pain but I got the wires routed this session.