{"id":33254,"date":"2024-06-01T21:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T02:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=33254"},"modified":"2024-06-05T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:25:27","slug":"several-candidates-attended-the-republican-meet-and-greet-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/several-candidates-attended-the-republican-meet-and-greet-tonight-20240601","title":{"rendered":"Several Candidates Attended The Republican Meet And Greet Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>Tonight at the city pavilion in Alton, Missouri, candidates met together for a Republican meet and greet. Eight candidates showed up to get to know voters.<\/p>\n<h2>Candidates<\/h2>\n<p>The candidates ranged from running for state offices to county offices. The candidates that showed up are as follows: David Stubblefield, Wyatt Janes, Vinnie Clubb, Terry Cline, Jason Kemper, Keith Elliot, Derrick Bennett, and Becky Granger.<\/p>\n<h2>Talks<\/h2>\n<p>Some of the candidates gave a little talk on why they were running for a specific office, what they accomplished in their current office, and what they plan to accomplish if elected.<\/p>\n<h2>Videos<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s each candidate&#8217;s speech from the night. The list will be updated as each video and article are published.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/county-commissioner-david-stubblefield-speaks-at-rep-meet-and-greet-20240603\">David Stubblefield<\/a>, presiding commissioner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/incumbent-jason-kemper-lists-political-accomplishments-20240603\">Jason Kemper<\/a>, presiding associate county commissioner for district 1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/terry-cline-spoke-at-meet-and-greet-on-saturday-20240603\">Terry Cline<\/a>, presiding associate county commissioner for district 2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/wyatt-janes-speaks-at-republican-meet-and-greet-20240603?preview=true\">Wyatt Janes<\/a>, candidate for associate county commissioner for district 1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/becky-granger-spoke-at-meet-and-greet-20240604\">Becky Granger<\/a>, current public administrator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/keith-elliott-comes-to-alton-to-share-his-stances-20240604\">Keith Elliott<\/a>, candidate for 153rd representative district<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/derrick-bennett-runs-for-assoc-so-county-commissioner-20240605\">Derrick Bennett<\/a>, candidate for associate county commissioner for district 1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/vinnie-clubb-expresses-views-at-oregon-county-meet-and-greet-20240605\">Vinnie Clubb<\/a>, candidate for 153rd representative district<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Primary elections are coming up in just 66 days. Each vote does count in every election. The AltonMo.com field team filmed the candidates speaking; the videos should be up within the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at the city pavilion in Alton, Mo, candidates met together for a Republican meet and greet. Eight candidates showed up to get to know voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[201,264,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33254"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33417,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254\/revisions\/33417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}