{"id":20070,"date":"2013-07-19T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20070"},"modified":"2013-07-19T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:56:08","slug":"candidate-filing-closes-three-running-for-raleigh-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2013\/07\/19\/candidate-filing-closes-three-running-for-raleigh-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Filing Closes, Three Running for Raleigh Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); }\n--><\/style>\n<p>Three mayoral candidates are officially on the ballot for the fall election after filing closed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 8 municipal election includes all City Council seats and some Wake Board of Education seats.<\/p>\n<p>Here is who will be campaigning during the next several weeks:<\/p>\n<p><b>Mayor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nancy McFarlane (I), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Venita Payton (R)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Weltzin (R)<\/p>\n<p><b>At Large (2 Seats)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Russ Stephenson (D), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Mary-Ann Baldwin (D), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Jason Spriggs (R)<\/p>\n<p>Rob Williams (R)<\/p>\n<p><b>District A<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Randy Stagner (Unaffilated), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Maiorano (R)<\/p>\n<p><b>District B<\/b><\/p>\n<p>John Odom (R), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Brian Fitzsimmons (D)<\/p>\n<p>Sam Smith (D)<\/p>\n<p><b>District C<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Eugene Weeks (D), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Hill (R)<\/p>\n<p>Racquel Williams (Unaffiliated)<\/p>\n<p><b>District D <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Crowder (D), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Jim Kemp Sherron (D)<\/p>\n<p><b>District E<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bonner Gaylord (Unaffiliated), Incumbent<\/p>\n<p>Running unopposed<\/p>\n<p>Also on the ballot will be a $75 million <a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/city-council\/2013\/06\/20\/transportation-bond-goes-to-voters-this-fall\/\">transportation bond<\/a> that will fund road improvements throughout the city and an $810 million Wake County <a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2013\/07\/16\/october-ballot-to-include-810m-school-bond\/\">schools bond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidate filing for the Oct. 8 municipal election has closed. Here is a list of who you&#8217;ll see on the ballot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1297,15],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070"}],"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=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}