{"id":2711,"date":"2013-11-12T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/sharp-holding-lead-over-stober-in-kent-city-council-race\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:10:28","slug":"sharp-holding-lead-over-stober-in-kent-city-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/sharp-holding-lead-over-stober-in-kent-city-council-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp holding lead over Stober in Kent City Council race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Ken Sharp continues to lead Bailey Stober in a close race for the Kent City Council.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sharp has 49.40 percent of the vote to 47.34 for Stober, according to King County Elections through Tuesday, Sharp has 7,431 votes, Stober has 7,122, a difference of 309 votes. Sharp led by 279 after election night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Even if Sharp wins the election, he would later lose the council position if convicted of the felony theft charges against him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sharp, who owns Minuteman Press in Kent, is scheduled to return to court Nov. 20 for a hearing as he faces seven counts of first-degree theft for reportedly stealing $297,500 from his 93-year-old mother&#8217;s bank account and putting the money into his account. A court date could be set at the hearing or attorneys could ask for more time to prepare the case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If convicted as charged, Sharp faces a prison sentence of 22 to 29 months. Sharp has pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Sharp continues to lead Bailey Stober in a close race for the Kent City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":2712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}