{"id":8750,"date":"2010-08-16T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2010-08-16T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:28:03","slug":"its-carlsbadistan-election-season-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8750","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Carlsbadistan Election Season Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the close of the <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> candidate filing period on Wednesday August 11, 2010 it appears that we have four mayoral candidates, four City Council candidates and a couple people who want to be treasurer come November, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_f1c323b0-1ed4-597d-8122-17b2caf10170.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As expected, two councilmen &#8212;- <strong>Keith Blackburn<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Hall<\/strong> &#8212;- as well as former Marine <strong>Glenn Bernard<\/strong> and landscape company owner <strong>Walt Meier<\/strong> will be seeking the mayor&#8217;s spot. The city&#8217;s current, longtime mayor, <strong>Bud Lewis<\/strong>, decided at the start of his term four years ago not to seek re-election. Hall&#8217;s council seat is up for re-election this year, but he is not seeking that post. . . . Four people are seeking the two City Council seats on the ballot. They are city Planning Commissioner <strong>Farrah Douglas<\/strong>, incumbent Councilman <strong>Mark Packard<\/strong>, frequent council candidate <strong>William Jubb<\/strong> and Carlsbad education company employee <strong>Jon Wantz<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, this election season his is going to be fun. We can hardly wait for the candidates forums. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_f1c323b0-1ed4-597d-8122-17b2caf10170.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the close of the Carlsbadistan candidate filing period on Wednesday August 11, 2010 it appears that we have four mayoral candidates, four City Council candidates and a couple people who want to be treasurer come November, according to a story in the North County Times. As expected, two councilmen &#8212;- Keith Blackburn and Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}