{"id":31794,"date":"2014-07-11T20:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31794"},"modified":"2014-07-11T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:40:55","slug":"david-vs-goliath-dist-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/07\/david-vs-goliath-dist-79\/","title":{"rendered":"David vs Goliath Dist 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25870\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25870\" title=\"Larry Aguilar\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Larry-Aguilar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"183\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Aguilar (D)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Southwest Florida man, who says his dreams of public service have been unfairly crushed, is now getting help in his battle to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Larry Aguilar is running for Florida House seat 79 (which covers much of northeast Lee County)\u00a0against incumbent Republican Matt Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, however, Aguilar isn&#8217;t on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The Division of Elections says he didn&#8217;t submit his paperwork in time.<\/p>\n<p>But time-stamps from certified mail paint a different picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve again confirmed that we did send someone\u00a0Friday\u00a0morning and the post office would not release it to him for pick up and he even went back after the qualifying period was over\u00a0Friday\u00a0afternoon and it was not available.\u201d said Brittany Lesser Communications Director Florida Department of State<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys representing the Florida State Democratic Party, along with Aguilar&#8217;s own legal counsel, are ready to take action against the state election office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwest Florida man, who says his dreams of public service have been unfairly crushed, is now getting help in his battle to fight back. Democrat Larry Aguilar is running&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}