{"id":41305,"date":"2016-10-01T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41305"},"modified":"2016-10-01T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:55:34","slug":"bupac-business-people-united-for-political-action-committee-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/10\/bupac-business-people-united-for-political-action-committee-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"BUPAC (Business people United for Political Action Committee) Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41306\" title=\"BUPAC LOGO\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BUPAC-LOGO-300x93.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BUPAC-LOGO-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BUPAC-LOGO.png 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BUPAC, a group that meets weekly to hear a candidate speak and answer unfiltered questions from the audience for an hour, issued its endorsements for the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates had to win a two-thirds majority to get the nod.<\/p>\n<p>*Sheriff Mike Scott won endorsement over NPA opponent James Didio.<\/p>\n<p>*Jeanne Dozier was endorsed for Lee school board district 2 over Melisa Giovannelli.<\/p>\n<p>*Jane Kuckel won endorsement over Don Armstrong for School board district 6.<\/p>\n<p>*Cathleen Morgan won endorsement over Chris Quackenbush for school board district 7.<\/p>\n<p>*Commissioner Larry Kiker was endorsed over a write-in opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Races for the Supervisor of Elections and for Lee Commission District 5 failed to produce the two-thirds margin for victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUPAC, a group that meets weekly to hear a candidate speak and answer unfiltered questions from the audience for an hour, issued its endorsements for the November election. Candidates had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41305"}],"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=41305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}