{"id":8768,"date":"2010-08-23T12:34:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2010-08-23T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T19:34:40","slug":"mayor-lewis-will-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8768","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lewis Will Be Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4c708a84c71d5.preview-300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4c708a84c71d5.preview-300.jpg','popup','width=300,height=198,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4c708a84c71d5.preview-300-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"4C708A84C71D5.Preview-300\" \/><\/a>Believe it or not, we&#8217;re not big fans of change. And as much as we have been critical of some of the decisions made in the past few years by <strong>Mayor Claud &#8220;Bud&#8221; Lewis<\/strong>, it is going to be sad to see him go at the end of this term.<br \/>\nAs Mayor Lewis prepares for his final <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadca.gov\/about\/news\/Pages\/state-of-city-2010.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">State of the City address<\/a><\/strong> this Friday, August 27, 2010 at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/parkaviara.hyatt.com\/hyatt\/hotels\/index.jsp?src=agn_smg_hhc_ppc_google_ss_propertyspecific_sanpa_parkhyattaviaraaccommodation&amp;k_clickid=4f9ce095-d2d4-39e8-ba31-00005b524aa0\" target=\"_blank\">Park Hyatt Aviara Hotel<\/a><\/strong> <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_33f0548a-bdf1-5eb7-a79d-01ccc0824845.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> checked in to look back on his 40 year career in Carlsbad politics and it&#8217;s well worth a read. . . <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was first elected mayor five years before the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce began hosting its annual State of the City events, and he served as a councilman for 16 years prior to that. . . &#8220;His whole life has been city of Carlsbad,&#8221; said Councilwoman Ann Kulchin, who&#8217;s served on the council herself so long that she sometimes says that she and Lewis are like a long-married couple. . . Known for his plain-spoken manner and his distinctive bald head, Lewis is fond of telling people that if they don&#8217;t like the job he&#8217;s doing, they&#8217;re free to vote him out of office. Friends and supporters say he has kept his post because people like what Lewis offers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No matter what else people have said about him one thing is for certain&#8211; he has served Carlsbad like few other have or ever will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_33f0548a-bdf1-5eb7-a79d-01ccc0824845.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, we&#8217;re not big fans of change. And as much as we have been critical of some of the decisions made in the past few years by Mayor Claud &#8220;Bud&#8221; Lewis, it is going to be sad to see him go at the end of this term. As Mayor Lewis prepares for [&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\/8768"}],"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=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8769,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions\/8769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}