{"id":366009,"date":"2015-06-19T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=366009"},"modified":"2015-06-20T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T20:48:30","slug":"dean-officially-announces-state-house-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=366009","title":{"rendered":"Dean Officially Announces State House Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/JayDeanSpeakingLNJ_1434377521628_1433353_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/JayDeanSpeakingLNJ_1434377521628_1433353_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JayDeanSpeakingLNJ_1434377521628_1433353_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-364526\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW &#8212; It&#8217;s been the talk of Longview, but as of Thursday, it&#8217;s official.  KETK reports former Mayor Jay Dean announced his candidacy for District 7 state representative.   During his time as mayor, Dean says he reached out to the community through bi-monthly town hall meetings.   He says it&#8217;s important for him to know what matters to residents &#8212; &#8220;to be a voice for all people but also to understand from the citizens in this district exactly what they consider the issues. We work hard to do that.&#8221; <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Dean is the president of the oil and energy company Shale Flow Specialties.  Recently Dean has made recommendations to lawmakers to address issues in the oil industry.  As a representative he says he will work closely with business owners and listen to their ideas.  According to Dean, &#8220;From a local district 7 perspective, I will have plenty of work to do in talking to some of those business people as well to understand what we can do legislatively to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mayor who helped Longview achieve a double A bond rating while in office says he is ready to make things happen for District 7.   Dean remarks, &#8220;I enjoy representing people.  I enjoy&#8230;trying to bring people together to find resolution.  I believe I&#8217;m a builder, not a divider.&#8221;   Dean says residents can expect to see the  conservative Republican style he used in the mayoral office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; It&#8217;s been the talk of Longview, but as of Thursday, it&#8217;s official. KETK reports former Mayor Jay Dean announced his candidacy for District 7 state representative. During his time as mayor, Dean says he reached out to the community through bi-monthly town hall meetings. He says it&#8217;s important for him to know what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=366009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dean Officially Announces State House Run<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":364526,"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-366009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 00:35:08","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\/366009","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=366009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366010,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366009\/revisions\/366010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}