{"id":664,"date":"2016-08-03T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/?p=664"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T17:32:38","slug":"your-vote-really-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/your-vote-really-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Vote Really Counts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to encourage you and neighbors to vote Saturday, August 6th in the special election for Place 2 City Council.\u00a0 All candidates deserve consideration too. It will be a low turnout election so your vote will make a BIG difference.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What Did They Say at\u00a0 PfCONA&#8217;s July 11 Candidate Forum?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span class=\"title\">Watch Candidate Video at <a title=\"watch the video here\" href=\"http:\/\/pfcona.org\/VIDEO_PfCONA.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/pfcona.org\/VIDEO_PfCONA.html\">http:\/\/www.pfcona.org<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pfcona.org\/VIDEO_PfCONA.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-665 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-S9960001-1024x683.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Council Candidate Forum\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-S9960001.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-S9960001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-S9960001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01-S9960001.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">L-R) Jim McDonald, Victor To, Jeff Marsh, Victor Johnson. Moderator Doug Weiss<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"fe8b3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e5m6o-0-0\">\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"408\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#FFFF66\" width=\"320\">A <span class=\"style8\">special election <\/span>for <span class=\"stylebgrn\">Place 2 Pflugerville City Council<\/span> vacant seat has been called for <span class=\"style8\">August 6<\/span><strong>. Vote <\/strong>at Council Chambers, 100 E. Main Street, Suite 500.\u00a0 <strong>Election Day voting on August 6 is from 7 a.m. &#8211; 7 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For many years the Pflugerville Council of Neighborhood Associations, which does not endorse candidates, has held free, public Candidate Forum for our local candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The July 11th program format was a moderated panel with time limits so all candidates had equal opportunity to answer questions. Each candidate prepared up to a 4 minute opening speech and a 4 minute closing summary.\u00a0 After introductory candidate statements, the audience was invited to submit <u>written <\/u>questions read by a moderator. Candidate answers were limited to 2 minutes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"title\" style=\"color: #800000;\">Read More About Candidates<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Victor Johnson<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/VictorJohnson4PF\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/VictorJohnson4PF\">Facebook.com\/VictorJohnson4PF<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Victor4Council@gmail.com\">Victor4Council@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Marsh<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"candidate Facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/vote4jeffmarsh\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/vote4jeffmarsh\">Facebook.com\/vote4jeffmarsh<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:vote4jeffmarsh@gmail.com\">vote4jeffmarsh@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim McDonald<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmcdonald.com\">www.jimmcdonald.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"candidate Facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/jimmcdonaldpflugerville\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/jimmcdonaldpflugerville\">Facebook.com\/jimmcdonaldpflugerville<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:pflugerville@jimmcdonald.com\">pflugerville@jimmcdonald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor To<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"candidate Facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/votevictorto\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/votevictorto\">Facebook.com\/votevictorto<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:to-victor@sbcglobal.net\">to-victor@sbcglobal.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to encourage you and neighbors to vote Saturday, August 6th in the special election for Place 2 City Council.\u00a0 All candidates deserve consideration too. It will be a low turnout election so your vote will make a BIG difference. What Did They Say at\u00a0 PfCONA&#8217;s July 11 Candidate Forum? Watch Candidate Video at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/your-vote-really-counts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Vote Really Counts!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,58,24,41,56],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-announce","tag-candidate","tag-city-council","tag-pfcona","tag-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnafriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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