{"id":20064,"date":"2013-07-17T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20064"},"modified":"2013-07-17T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:31:11","slug":"venita-peyton-challenges-nancy-mcfarlane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2013\/07\/17\/venita-peyton-challenges-nancy-mcfarlane\/","title":{"rendered":"Venita Peyton Challenges Nancy McFarlane"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link {  }\n--><\/style>\n<p>With just two days left to file, Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane has some competition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" id=\"attachment_8774\" style=\"width: 245px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8774\" alt=\"peyton mug\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/peyton-mug-336x480.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/peyton-mug-336x480.jpg 336w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/peyton-mug-771x1103.jpg 771w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/peyton-mug-1170x1674.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/peyton-mug.jpg 1838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Venita Peyton<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Real estate broker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venitapeyton.com\/\">Venita Peyton<\/a> filed Wednesday in the race for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton, a Republican, ran in 2011 for for the District 4 Wake Board of Education seat, but lost to Keith Sutton.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton is a resident of southeast Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/voter-guide-2011\/2011\/09\/15\/venita-peyton-r\/\">Read our 2011 voter guide profile of Peyton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McFarlane is finishing up her first term as mayor after serving as a representative for District A.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other City Council Races<br \/>\n<\/b>As of Wednesday, other candidates for the fall election include:<\/p>\n<p>Independent incumbent Randy Stagner will face Republican Wayne Maiorano for District A.<\/p>\n<p>Republican incumbent John Odom has two challengers for his seat in District B. Newcomers Brian Fitzsimmons and Sam Smith are both registered Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Racquel Williams has filed for District C, held by Democrat incumbent Eugene Weeks. Williams also ran for this seat in 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/voter-guide-2011\/2011\/09\/15\/racquel-williams\/\">Read her 2011 voter guide profile here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Thomas Crowder, a Democrat, has filed to run for another term in District D. Challenger Jim Kemp Sherron has announced his candidacy, but had not filed as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Unaffiliated District E incumbent Bonner Gaylord has announced his candidacy, but had not filed as of Wednesday. At this time, he would be running unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Jason Spriggs is looking for one of two At-Large seats held by Democrats Mary-Ann Baldwin and Russ Stephenson. At press time, Baldwin had not filed, but she has announced her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>The filing period ends at noon Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A challenger has entered the race for mayor. Venita Peyton will challenge Nancy McFarlane for the mayor\u2019s chair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":8774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1297,15],"tags":[189,894,1333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}