{"id":232355,"date":"2013-01-01T07:40:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=232355"},"modified":"2013-01-02T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:40:41","slug":"berman-passes-the-torch-to-schaefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=232355","title":{"rendered":"Berman Passes the Torch to Schaefer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=232356\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-232356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/leo-berman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"leo-berman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-232356\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Next week, District 6 Representative Leo Berman will pass the torch to Tyler attorney Matt Schaefer. &#8220;After 14 years and 45 years in public service, including the military and city council and Texas State Guard, I&#8217;m ready to retire really&#8230;and do my own things like playing golf and traveling a lot,&#8221; Berman said.<\/p>\n<p>Berman is looking and feeling pretty good these days after a battle with cancer in the midst of the election season. &#8220;Apparently stemmed from 2 years in Vietnam and slogging around the jungles in agent orange.  And I came down with Non-Hodgkin&#8217;s Lymphoma,&#8221; Berman said. After 6 months of Chemo, he says the Cancer is in remission.<\/p>\n<p>Berman is proud of what he&#8217;s done for East Texans. &#8220;The fact that we answered every call, every e-mail, every piece of mail that we got, everybody got a response and we were very succesful in helping people with their problems with the state,&#8221; Berman said.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer tells KETK he&#8217;s also looking forward to helping people have a voice. He already knows some of the issues he&#8217;ll tackle right out of the gate. &#8220;We have to look at what&#8217;s going on in our public schools.  Everything from standardized testing, to financing to equity,&#8221; Schaefer said. Leo Berman says he has well wishes for Matt Schaefer and Schaefer has a lot of respect for his predecessor, calling Representative Berman a &#8220;tough guy.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m very glad that he&#8217;s doing well.  And I expect I&#8217;ll be calling him from time to time to tap into his wisdom,&#8221; Schaefer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Next week, District 6 Representative Leo Berman will pass the torch to Tyler attorney Matt Schaefer. &#8220;After 14 years and 45 years in public service, including the military and city council and Texas State Guard, I&#8217;m ready to retire really&#8230;and do my own things like playing golf and traveling a lot,&#8221; Berman said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=232355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berman Passes the Torch to Schaefer<\/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-232355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 07:46:52","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\/232355","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=232355"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232514,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232355\/revisions\/232514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}