{"id":298241,"date":"2026-05-03T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:38:50","slug":"governor-candidates-bianco-hilton-to-speak-at-kern-county-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298241\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor candidates Bianco, Hilton to speak at Kern County forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The California Young Republicans and the Kern County Young Republicans will be co-hosting a forum featuring California\u2019s two Republican candidates for governor, Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers for the event say that forum will \u201cbring together young professionals and community members from across the Central Valley for a timely discussion on the future of California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event comes after Bianco and Hilton participated in two California governor debates in April, along with several Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/state-launches-two-one-energy-232548841.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:State launches new two-in-one energy and water project in Central Valley;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> State launches new two-in-one energy and water project in Central Valley <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governor\u2019s forum will be held at the Liberty Center located at 5300 California Ave., May 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The forum will run from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kern County Young Republicans will host a reception following the forum. Tickets for 40-year-olds and younger are $10 and tickets for ages 41 and up are $20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The California Young Republicans and the Kern County Young Republicans will be co-hosting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,28687,5524,38967,735,40659,17382,126376],"class_list":["post-298241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-chad-bianco","tag-community-members","tag-democratic-candidates","tag-kern-county","tag-republican-candidates","tag-steve-hilton","tag-young-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298241","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=298241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}