{"id":89391,"date":"2025-12-10T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:21:08","slug":"exclusive-karbassi-announces-bid-for-county-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89391\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Karbassi Announces Bid for County Supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ)\u00a0 Mike Karbassi announced Wednesday exclusively with KMJ\u2019s Broeske &amp; Musson that he\u2019s now running for District 1 Fresno County Supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>The two-term Fresno City Councilman is seeking to replace Brian Pacheco (D-Kerman), who officially launched his District 27 Assembly campaign on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pacheco is running to replace Esmarelda Soria (D-Fresno) who\u2019s running for State Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Karbassi had previously announced a bid for County Clerk in an effort to oust elections chief James Kus.\u00a0 He had been critical of Kus\u2019s performance in previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had six and and a half years to do this and I think I\u2019m pretty good at it,\u201d Karbassi told the KMJ audience.<\/p>\n<p>Also running for the Supervisor seat include: Omar Hernandez, an aide to Rep. Adam Gray and Firebaugh City Councilman Felipe Perez.<\/p>\n<p>Others reportedly considering a bid include: Fresno non-profit leader Eric Payne and Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ)\u00a0 Mike Karbassi announced Wednesday exclusively with KMJ\u2019s Broeske &amp; Musson that he\u2019s now running for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-89391","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\/89391","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=89391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}