{"id":41368,"date":"2016-10-06T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41368"},"modified":"2016-10-07T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:47:58","slug":"farsi-pulls-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/10\/farsi-pulls-out-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Farsi Pulls Out of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41369\" title=\"breaking-news\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/breaking-news-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/breaking-news-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/breaking-news-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/breaking-news.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a little than five weeks to go to the Nov. 8 election, Richard Farsi, who was running for Seat 1 on the Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District has withdrawn himself from the race.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Elections notify the voters of Lehigh Acres by postcard, costing the taxpayers nearly $15,000.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Farsi, who was challenging incumbent Michael Welch and Dewey Tyler, Farsi said he has withdrawn due to his wife\u2019s serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>But as of 5 pm today 10\/5\/2016 his wife, Erica Farsi is still on the ballot for Lehigh Acres Fire Board Seat #1.<\/p>\n<p>According to Farsi his wife\u2019s condition is very serious and has been in contract with election officials to remove her off the ballot also next week.<\/p>\n<p>The election is Nov. 8, although absentee ballots will be mailed out Oct 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a little than five weeks to go to the Nov. 8 election, Richard Farsi, who was running for Seat 1 on the Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41369,"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\/41368"}],"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=41368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}