{"id":49029,"date":"2021-06-01T14:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49029"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:33:39","slug":"florida-agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-has-officially-launched-a-bid-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/06\/florida-agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-has-officially-launched-a-bid-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has officially launched a bid for governor."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nikki-Fried-1024x812.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49030\" width=\"334\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nikki-Fried-1024x812.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nikki-Fried-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nikki-Fried-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nikki-Fried.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><figcaption>Nikki Fried<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Election Office received the paperwork on June 1, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fried is the second Democrat to announce a campaign for governor after U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist launched his campaign last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fried narrowly won the agriculture commissioner job in 2018 and is the only statewide elected Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fried has been a critic of Governor Ron DeSantis. Earlier on Tuesday, she blasted the governor&nbsp;for signing a bill that bans trans-female athletes&nbsp;in public high school or college from playing in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fried called the bill &#8220;heartless&#8221; and said DeSantis was &#8220;especially cruel&#8221; for signing the bill on the first day of Pride Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Office received the paperwork on June 1, 2021. Fried is the second Democrat to announce a campaign for governor after U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist launched his campaign last&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029"}],"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=49029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49031,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029\/revisions\/49031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}