{"id":8107,"date":"2018-03-02T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2018-03-02T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:20:41","slug":"early-voting-under-way-in-los-fresnos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting Under Way in Los Fresnos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-53118-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8095\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-53118-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"gr-53118-1-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-53118-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-53118-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-53118-1-1-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-53118-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Early voting for a seat on the Cameron County Commissioners Court began Tuesday , Feb. 20 and will continue through Friday, March 2 for the March 6 primary election.<br \/>\nArea voters can cast their ballots for a number of county and state races at Los Fresnos Community Center at 204 Brazil St.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although there are no local races, voters will choose between two Democrats running for Cameron County judge and a few other contested county-wide races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They are Robert Sanchez and Eddie Trevino Jr., who is the incumbent county judge. Carlos Cascos, a former county judge, is running as a Republican for the county\u2019s top administrative seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In other contested Democratic Party races, Lali Betancourt is running against Sylvia Garza Perez for county clerk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also, two people are trying to unseat Rene Oliveira, who is the state representative for District 37. They are Arturo Alonzo and Alex Dominguez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For district judge for the197th judicial court, five are going after that seat. They are: Adolfo Cordoba, Gerardo \u201cGerry\u201d Linan, Carlos Masso and Sonia Herrera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The polls for early voting will stay open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. every week day through March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Early voting for a seat on the Cameron County Commissioners Court began Tuesday , Feb. 20 and will continue through Friday, March 2 for the March 6 primary election. Area voters can cast their ballots for a number of county and state races at Los Fresnos Community Center at 204 Brazil St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}