{"id":8757,"date":"2010-08-20T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2010-08-23T00:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T07:10:41","slug":"carlsbadistan-mayoral-forum-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8757","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan Mayoral Forum Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> will get its first chance to hear from <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">our four<\/span> three of our mayoral candidates as the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadrepublicans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Republican Women Federated<\/a><\/strong> host the first forum\/luncheon on Tuesday August 24, 2010, according to as story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/17\/carlsbad-republican-women-federated-to-host-mayora\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The forum will following a social hour and luncheon that begins at 11 a.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 6450 Carlsbad Blvd. . . Tickets for the luncheon are $25. Reservations can be made by calling (760) 434-6478 or by email at <strong><a href=\"mailto:bevy17@att.net?subject=Carlsbadistan%20Feedback\" target=\"_blank\">bevy17@att.net<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re not really sure which candidates will be there. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keith4carlsbad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Blackburn<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Hall<\/a><\/strong>, or <strong>Walt Meier<\/strong>? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostindependentcandidateinamerica.com\/mostindependentcandidateinamerica\/Welcome.html\">Glenn Bernard<\/a><\/strong> said in an email that he was told only &#8220;registered Republicans could be there, so I&#8217;m left out.&#8221; Maybe this luncheon is simply a fund raiser for <strong>Matt Hall<\/strong>. If the Carlsbad Republican Women Federated ever get back to us, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update: 10:42 PM August 22, 2010]<\/strong> This morning we received a polite email from Carlsbad Republican Women Federated&#8217;s <strong>Judy Rees<\/strong>, VP on behalf of <strong>Crystal Harris<\/strong> President, explaining that Keith Blackburn, Matt Hall, and Walt Meier will be speaking at the Mayoral Forum on Tuesday, however because of the Carlsbad Republican Women Federated&#8217;s bylaws &#8220;Article 1V- Section 2&#8221; which states that &#8220;This Club shall not invite nor permit a person registered in any party other than the Republican Party to speak at any meeting&#8221; the other candidate was not invited to speak. Rees went on to say that while everyone who has a reservation is welcome at the forum, only Republican candidates can speak.<\/p>\n<p>For a slightly less polite, more biting reiteration of the above information, be sure to read Carlsbad Republican Women Federated associate member <strong>James McMillen&#8217;s<\/strong> comments listed below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/17\/carlsbad-republican-women-federated-to-host-mayora\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan will get its first chance to hear from our four three of our mayoral candidates as the Carlsbad Republican Women Federated host the first forum\/luncheon on Tuesday August 24, 2010, according to as story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The forum will following a social hour and luncheon that begins at 11 a.m. at [&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\/8757"}],"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=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}