{"id":628181,"date":"2017-06-18T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=628181"},"modified":"2017-06-19T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:13:00","slug":"mckellar-again-enters-congressional-race-town-hall-meeting-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=628181","title":{"rendered":"McKellar Again Enters Congressional Race; Town Hall Meeting Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/mckellar_1439231606761_3683398_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/mckellar_1439231606761_3683398_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mckellar_1439231606761_3683398_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-385067\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; She&#8217;s become a perennial opponent to Republican Louie Gohmert, and Shirley McKellar of Tyler will again be seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Congress District 1 in 2018. An early chance to hear from McKellar and other Democrats comes Saturday, June 24th, with a town hall meeting of the East Texas Coalition of Black Democrats; McKellar serves as president of that organization, a subsidiary of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats.  The meeting is set for 11:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church, on North Broadway in Tyler. McKellar says it will feature statewide candidates, elected officials, and others. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year, McKellar has an opponent in the Democratic Primary: UT Tyler business Professor Brent Beal of Nacogdoches, who formally announced his candidacy June 3. McKellar is a nurse and U.S. Army veteran with a long history of community involvement.  Gohmert has consistently defeated her by wide margins, but she continues to sound the call for change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; She&#8217;s become a perennial opponent to Republican Louie Gohmert, and Shirley McKellar of Tyler will again be seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Congress District 1 in 2018. An early chance to hear from McKellar and other Democrats comes Saturday, June 24th, with a town hall meeting of the East Texas Coalition of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=628181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McKellar Again Enters Congressional Race; Town Hall Meeting Planned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":385067,"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-628181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 14:48:56","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\/628181","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=628181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766702,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628181\/revisions\/766702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}