{"id":157335,"date":"2026-01-31T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:02:07","slug":"kaur-files-for-california-senate-district-16-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157335\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaur files for California Senate District 16 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield City Councilwoman Manpreet Kaur has filed paperwork to run for California&#8217;s 16th Senate District seat, setting up a potential primary challenge against incumbent Democrat Melissa Hurtado.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur joins Guillermo Asuncion Gonzalez, who has also filed to run for the seat. <\/p>\n<p>The filing deadline is March 6.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been encouraged by the community and my constituents to explore my options, which in my eyes is an honor to begin with,&#8221; Kaur said.<\/p>\n<p>The 16th Senate District race will be closely watched as candidates prepare for the upcoming primary election on June 2. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield City Councilwoman Manpreet Kaur has filed paperwork to run for California&#8217;s 16th Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,1610,989,61868,76888,45070,76916,18211],"class_list":["post-157335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-city-council","tag-elections","tag-manpreet-kaur","tag-melissa-hurtado","tag-primary-election","tag-senate-district-16","tag-vice-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}