{"id":275252,"date":"2013-08-30T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=275252"},"modified":"2013-09-01T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:47:22","slug":"heines-running-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=275252","title":{"rendered":"Heines Running for Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=275259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-275259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/Heines-17691-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Heines - 1769\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-275259\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Mayor Pro-Tem Martin Heines Friday announced his intention to run for Mayor in the May 2014 election.  Current Mayor Barbara Bass is not seeking re-election due to term limits.  Heines is the first announced candidate for the post in next May&#8217;s election.  Heines, 50, a Tyler native, is a small business owner and property manager\/investor currently in his second term as Tyler City Councilman for District 4.   He&#8217;s also served on the Council Audit Committee and the Council Building\/Economic Development Committee.  <!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Heines&#8217;s involvement in the community has been diverse.  He&#8217;s served the City of Tyler as a volunteer on several committees including Chair of the City of Tyler International Existing Building Code Committee, on the Steering Committee for Tyler 1st, as a member of the Mayor\u2019s Tyler Leadership Roundtable, and as a member of the Midtown Area Development Committee. Heines is a board member of the TJC Foundation and has served on the Advisory Committee of the University of Texas at Tyler\u2019s Small Business Institute Program.  <\/p>\n<p>In the past, Heines has served as President of Heart of Tyler\/Main Street, and as a Board Member of the Literacy Council, Historic Tyler, and Tyler Board of Realtors. A graduate of Leadership Tyler Class XV, he also chaired the Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee in 2001 and 2002 and was a member of the Chamber\u2019s Vision 2000 and Vision 2010 Committees. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter serving on City Council for the past 3 years and visiting with many people throughout the community over the past several months, I am excited to announce my candidacy for Mayor of Tyler. I believe my background and experience as a City Council member, as a member of many different volunteer committees for the City, as well as my business background will help me serve effectively as Mayor. I would be honored to be elected to this position,\u201d said Heines.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Mayor Pro-Tem Martin Heines Friday announced his intention to run for Mayor in the May 2014 election. Current Mayor Barbara Bass is not seeking re-election due to term limits. Heines is the first announced candidate for the post in next May&#8217;s election. Heines, 50, a Tyler native, is a small business owner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=275252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heines Running for Mayor<\/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-275252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 11:01:40","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\/275252","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=275252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275261,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275252\/revisions\/275261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}