{"id":16049,"date":"2021-10-19T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=16049"},"modified":"2021-10-19T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:52:54","slug":"the-last-mayoral-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/10\/19\/the-last-mayoral-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Mayoral Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final Mayoral candidate forum will be Friday, sponsored by the Republican Club of Lakeland and the Libertarian Party of Polk County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saga Stevin said she didn\u2019t think it was fair for Bruce Anderson, who has expressed support for Mutz in the race, to serve as moderator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Ring, president of the Republican Club of Lakeland, said Monday that Stevin had not complained to him about Anderson\u2019s role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1022\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/James-Ring.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/James-Ring.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/James-Ring-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/James-Ring-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/James-Ring-768x767.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/James-Ring-250x250.jpeg 250w\" \/><figcaption> James Ring, president of the Republican Club of Lakeland <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ring, who publicly supports Mutz for mayor, has told the Lakeland Gazette that they will be using a substitute moderator for the mayoral forum, one Hardam Tripathi the Secretary of the Republican Club of Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The candidates in the two City Commission races are also scheduled to participate, and Bruce Anderson will serve as moderator for those debates, Ring said. A committee will review questions submitted in advance and choose which to pose to the candidates, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forum begins at 5:30 p.m. at The Heights at Cleveland Heights Golf Course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final Mayoral candidate forum will be Friday, sponsored by the Republican Club of Lakeland and the Libertarian Party of Polk County. Saga Stevin said she didn\u2019t think it was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1440],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-last-mayoral-debate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}