{"id":28949,"date":"2017-06-16T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kents-cultural-communities-board-to-host-mayoral-candidate-forum-june-27\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:22:57","slug":"kents-cultural-communities-board-to-host-mayoral-candidate-forum-june-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kents-cultural-communities-board-to-host-mayoral-candidate-forum-june-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s Cultural Communities Board to host mayoral candidate forum June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can learn more about the four candidates vying to be Kent&rsquo;s next mayor at a candidates forum from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday June 27, at the East Wing Auditorium at Kent-Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Kent&rsquo;s Cultural Communities Board, an advisory group to the mayor and City Council, is sponsoring the forum.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Albertson, Jim Berrios, Dana Ralph and Andrew Swansen have confirmed their participation. Mayor Suzette Cooke opted not to run for reelection after three four-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>The moderated forum will be a question-and-answer style information session and focus on issues that impact immigrants and refugees, people of color, individuals with disabilities and the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>Questions for candidates will also be accepted in writing from audience members during the event.<\/p>\n<p>KentTV21 will videotape the event and broadcast the forum on Comcast Cable Channel 21 from July 5 through Aug. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can learn more about the four candidates vying to be Kent&rsquo;s next mayor at a candidates forum from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday June 27, at the East Wing Auditorium at Kent-Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28949"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}