{"id":8790,"date":"2012-05-25T23:46:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T04:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2012-05-25T23:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T04:46:33","slug":"controversial-candidate-enters-lee-county-commission-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/controversial-candidate-enters-lee-county-commission-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Candidate Enters <BR>Lee County Commission Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8791\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Don-Stillwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8791\" title=\"Don Stillwell\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Don-Stillwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Stillwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A controversial candidate has entered the race for Lee County commissioner. Former Lee County manager Don Stilwell filed his papers with the election office Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Stilwell resigned as Lee County manager back in 2009, after he was caught forwarding sexually explicit emails from his work computer. It was one topic he certainly wanted to address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a mistake. I was wrong. I regret it,&#8221; Stilwell said. &#8220;If I could change it, I would change it. I tell you, I&#8217;ve paid the ultimate price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the last three years, Stilwell hasn&#8217;t been in the public eye, but he&#8217;s back and Friday, filing papers to run for Lee County Commission, District Two.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if people look at what the problems are in Lee County, and look at what the candidates are offering, it should be a very clear choice,&#8221; Stilwell said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he couldn&#8217;t stand by as the county uses up its reserves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been balancing our budget off our savings account and everybody knows you can&#8217;t do that,&#8221; Stilwell explained.<\/p>\n<p>The primary election happens August 14th and the general election is in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial candidate has entered the race for Lee County commissioner. Former Lee County manager Don Stilwell filed his papers with the election office Friday morning. Stilwell resigned as Lee&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"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\/8790"}],"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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}