{"id":8381,"date":"2018-05-01T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2018-05-01T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:36:07","slug":"early-voting-for-may-5-election-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8381","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting for May 5 Election Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8383\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vote-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"vote\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vote-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vote-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vote-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vote.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Early voting for the May 5 elections for two trustee seats with Texas Southmost College and for two board members with the Brownsville Navigation District ended Tuesday, May 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Among the candidates is a resident of Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Four candidates are running for two places on the TSC board and five others are running for two seats on the BND board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Running for TSC Place 6 are: J.J. De Leon Jr., Reynaldo Garcia and Carlos Rios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eva Alejandro is running in Place 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For BND commissioner in Place 2, John Wood, the incumbent, is being challenged by Cesar Lopez, while three hopefuls are running for the Place 4 seat left vacant by Carlos Masso. They are Javier Vega, Steve Guerra and Patrick Anderson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anderson is a teacher and band director with Los Fresnos school district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said he is running because he is concerned about the people\u2019s safety and would like to make the port more accountable when it comes to handling hazardous materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Local voters cast their ballots at Los Fresnos Community Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In another political races, early voting for the May 14 run-off will take place May 14 through May 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Six people are running for three seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">State Rep. Rene Oliveira, who is seeking another two year term in District 27, is being challenged by Alex Dominguez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the 197th State District Court race, Masso (the BND commissioner) is running against Adolfo Cordova of Santa Monica.<br \/>\nAnd for the justice of the peace seat in Precinct 2, Place 2, Javier Reyna is facing Jonathan Gracia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Early voting for the May 5 elections for two trustee seats with Texas Southmost College and for two board members with the Brownsville Navigation District ended Tuesday, May 1. Among the candidates is a resident of Los Fresnos. Four candidates are running for two places on the TSC board and five others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","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=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}