{"id":58664,"date":"2025-10-24T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58664"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:48:43","slug":"city-of-lakeland-election-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/city-of-lakeland-election-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Lakeland Election Endorsements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the Lakeland Gazette Editorial Board<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor &#8211; Cedrick Valrie  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"6a615f\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6a615f;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"388\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cedrick-valrie-headshot.webp?resize=284%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58665 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cedrick-valrie-headshot.webp?w=284&amp;ssl=1 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cedrick-valrie-headshot.webp?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District C Southwest &#8211; Dennis Odisho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"8f878a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8f878a;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"388\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/odisho-headshot.webp?resize=284%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58666 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/odisho-headshot.webp?w=284&amp;ssl=1 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/odisho-headshot.webp?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District D Southeast &#8211; Kim-Marie Noble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"9c5448\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #9c5448;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"388\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_1242.webp?resize=284%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58667 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_1242.webp?w=284&amp;ssl=1 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_1242.webp?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> We chose these three candidates because we need a positive change in the City Commission. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the Lakeland Gazette Editorial Board Mayor &#8211; Cedrick Valrie District C Southwest &#8211; Dennis Odisho District D Southeast &#8211; Kim-Marie Noble We chose these three candidates because we need&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"15","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMTBcL2VuZG9yc2VtZW50LXNlYWwyLWpwZy53ZWJwP2ZpdD0zNjIlMkMyODUmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJDaXR5IG9mIExha2VsYW5kIEVsZWN0aW9uIEVuZG9yc2VtZW50czoiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.tD6HA2v_S-n7YdVGI_mvPp8Pto9FvTQCKBEgk_vrFBIMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":15007,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/endorsements.png","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[12452],"class_list":["post-58664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-city-of-lakeland-election-endorsements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58664","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=58664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58669,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58664\/revisions\/58669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}