{"id":283993,"date":"2013-11-26T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=283993"},"modified":"2013-11-27T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:46:02","slug":"sanders-faces-hampton-in-commissioners-court-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=283993","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Faces Hampton in Commissioners Court Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/Donald-Sanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/Donald-Sanders-149x150.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Sanders\" width=\"149\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-284047\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Former City Councilman Donald Sanders has filed for Smith County Commissioner Precinct 4 in the 2014 Democratic Primary.  He&#8217;ll face longtime incumbent JoAnn Hampton. Sanders, 61, was reared and educated in Smith County and Precinct 4.  He retired from the Kelly Springfield Tire Plant after 33 years of employment. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, Sanders feels that serving maximum term limits as a city councilman has helped to prepare him for Commissioners Court.  He has also continued to serve on numerous boards and committees.  Sanders adds that he &#8220;has kept the citizens of Tyler&#8230;at the forefront of all of his efforts&#8221; and has worked &#8220;tirelessly for the improvements in the city of Tyler.&#8221;  According to the news release,  Sanders &#8220;recognizes the continual need for roads and drainage improvements. He wants to continue to build partnerships and relationships to develop Precinct 4 in Smith County to its fullest potential toward economic growth. He is committed to improving the quality of life for all citizens in Precinct 4 and Smith County.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Former City Councilman Donald Sanders has filed for Smith County Commissioner Precinct 4 in the 2014 Democratic Primary. He&#8217;ll face longtime incumbent JoAnn Hampton. Sanders, 61, was reared and educated in Smith County and Precinct 4. He retired from the Kelly Springfield Tire Plant after 33 years of employment.<\/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-283993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 10:54:36","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\/283993","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=283993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284048,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283993\/revisions\/284048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}