{"id":324035,"date":"2015-01-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=324035"},"modified":"2015-01-26T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:51:49","slug":"former-councilman-seeks-longview-mayors-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=324035","title":{"rendered":"Former Councilman Seeks Longview Mayor&#8217;s Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/01\/andymackmayorlnj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/01\/andymackmayorlnj-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"andymackmayorlnj\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-324036\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Former Longview City Councilman Dr. Andy Mack announced Friday he&#8217;s running for Longview  mayor.   KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Mack, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, served on the City Council for eight years until 2005.  That&#8217;s when he left his District 4 seat on the council to run for mayor in a seven-candidate free-for-all after Mayor Murray Moore resigned.   Mayor Jay Dean edged Mack in both the general election and a following runoff between the two men.  Dean, who has served for 10 years, will not seek re-election due to term limit restrictions. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The announcement, which came a half a week before candidates can officially file to run in the May 9 election, makes Mack the second candidate hoping to fill the soon-to-be vacant mayoral seat.  District 5 Councilman Richard Manley announced his candidacy for the post on Jan. 14, creating an upcoming election for the northwest seat as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Former Longview City Councilman Dr. Andy Mack announced Friday he&#8217;s running for Longview mayor. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Mack, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, served on the City Council for eight years until 2005. That&#8217;s when he left his District 4 seat on the council to run for mayor in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=324035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Councilman Seeks Longview Mayor&#8217;s Post<\/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-324035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 10:46:50","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\/324035","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=324035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365986,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324035\/revisions\/365986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}