{"id":693188,"date":"2018-02-21T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=693188"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:15:00","slug":"only-two-contested-races-on-may-ballot-in-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=693188","title":{"rendered":"Only Two Contested Races on May Ballot in Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/voting-computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-693189\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The filing deadline has passed, and there are only two contested races on the May local election ballot in Tyler. Martin Heines, seeking a third and final term as mayor, will be challenged by Joel Rando for the third time. Broderick McGee faces Beverly Beavers-Brooks for the District 2 seat on the city council. Current District 2 councilmember Darryl Bowdre will step down in May due to term limits. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Beavers-Brooks kicked off her campaign last week. In press materials, she&#8217;s described as &#8220;a retired professional with a career which spanned forty plus years in corporate America, non-profit organizations and local, state and national governments.&#8221; McGee made his official announcement last September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The filing deadline has passed, and there are only two contested races on the May local election ballot in Tyler. Martin Heines, seeking a third and final term as mayor, will be challenged by Joel Rando for the third time. Broderick McGee faces Beverly Beavers-Brooks for the District 2 seat on the city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=693188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Only Two Contested Races on May Ballot in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":693189,"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-693188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 22:10:47","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\/693188","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693209,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693188\/revisions\/693209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}