{"id":284782,"date":"2026-04-25T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:51:07","slug":"fresno-council-hopeful-arambula-downplays-divorce-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284782\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Council hopeful Arambula downplays divorce impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, answered questions Friday outside the B.F. Sisk Courthouse following the latest hearing in his divorce proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by his estranged wife, Elizabeth, and both of their lawyers, who said the two started the divorce proceedings <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article314952444.html\">with headbutting but<\/a> are now in \u201ca better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They came to a temporary agreement on financial support for Elizabeth Arambula, and Joaquin Arambula will be allowed to see their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2018m grateful for the opportunity to be able to see my daughters this weekend,\u201d Joaquin Arambula said outside the courthouse. \u201cMy north star has always been (to be) able to access my daughters and to keep our family whole. I\u2019m looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was not concerned about how the divorce and news coverage may affect his run for the Fresno City Council seat for District 1, saying \u201cpolitics be damned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/local-election\/article314941640.html\">primary election is June 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218116650\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777081867_688_Thaddeus Miller smaller.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Thaddeus Miller\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218116650\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thaddeus Miller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Merced Sun-Star<\/p>\n<p>            Reporter Thaddeus Miller has covered cities in the central San Joaquin Valley since 2010, writing about everything from breaking news to government and police accountability. A native of Fresno, he joined The Fresno Bee in 2019 after time in Merced and Los Banos.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, answered questions Friday outside the B.F. Sisk Courthouse following the latest hearing in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-284782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284782","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=284782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}