{"id":278321,"date":"2013-10-11T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=278321"},"modified":"2013-10-13T06:03:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T11:03:45","slug":"lt-governor-candidate-forum-oct-12-at-ut-tyler-ornelas-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=278321","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Governor Candidate Forum Oct. 12 at UT-Tyler Ornelas Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/10\/087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/10\/087-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"087\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-278368\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Tyler-area residents have a chance to interact with the candidates for Texas lieutenant governor this weekend. The East Texas Constitutional Alliance, of which Grassroots America is a founding member, will sponsor a Lt. Governor Candidate Forum and Straw Poll Saturday at the UT-Tyler Ornelas Center on Old Omen Road. Doors open at 2:00 p.m. The event begins at 2:30 and ends at 4:00 with straw poll voting until 5:00. Candidates who have declared for the race are Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, State Senator Dan Patrick, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples. The Republican Primary will be held on March 4, 2014. There is no cost for the October 12 event, and organizers say the public is urged to attend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler-area residents have a chance to interact with the candidates for Texas lieutenant governor this weekend. The East Texas Constitutional Alliance, of which Grassroots America is a founding member, will sponsor a Lt. Governor Candidate Forum and Straw Poll Saturday at the UT-Tyler Ornelas Center on Old Omen Road. Doors open at 2:00 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=278321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lt. Governor Candidate Forum Oct. 12 at UT-Tyler Ornelas Center<\/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-278321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 22:18:20","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\/278321","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=278321"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279226,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278321\/revisions\/279226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}