{"id":196553,"date":"2012-06-18T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=196553"},"modified":"2012-06-19T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:46:23","slug":"dean-proposes-changes-in-city-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=196553","title":{"rendered":"Dean Proposes Changes in City Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=196641\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-196641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/06\/Jay-Dean-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jay Dean\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-196641\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 Changes may be coming in the way Longview runs its elections. Mayor Jay Dean has proposed possible addition of a filing fee or requiring candidates to acquire a certain number of signatures before being placed on the ballot for city elections. The proposal comes after a Dean opponent moved away just before the May election. Dean says he just wants to make sure taxpayers\u2019 money isn\u2019t being wasted. According to Dean, some of the people who filed for the election weren\u2019t \u201cserious candidates.\u201d He says they \u201creally didn\u2019t plan to win the election, they didn\u2019t plan to serve, it was just an emotion thing.\u201d Right now, city officials are exploring other options. According to KETK, any changes would have to be approved by the Department of Justice and then voted on by local residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Changes may be coming in the way Longview runs its elections. Mayor Jay Dean has proposed possible addition of a filing fee or requiring candidates to acquire a certain number of signatures before being placed on the ballot for city elections. The proposal comes after a Dean opponent moved away just before the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=196553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dean Proposes Changes in City Elections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 16:27:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196553"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196841,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553\/revisions\/196841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}