{"id":89566,"date":"2025-12-10T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:40:06","slug":"kerman-mayor-and-fresno-councilman-want-seat-vacated-for-assembly-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89566\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerman mayor and Fresno councilman want seat vacated for assembly run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno County Supervisor Brian Pacheco has announced he will not seek reelection for District 1 supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican supervisor plans to run for the state assembly in District 27, currently held by Democrat Esmeralda Soria, who is running for the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco, who is not related to Brian Pacheco, will run for the District 1 seat Brian Pacheco is leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Fresno City Council President Mike Karbassi has decided to run for the same supervisor position, abandoning his previous plans to run for County Elections Chief. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I continue to have deep concerns about how elections are run in this county, I will be able to have some oversight as a County Supervisor to ensure that every incorporated city has at least one in-person vote center on Election Day,&#8221; said Karbassi. &#8220;As Supervisor, I will also be able to continue addressing the needs of our community on many other critical issues such as public safety, road improvements, and increasing access to parks and trails.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The election for County Supervisor District 1 is set for June 2, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno County Supervisor Brian Pacheco has announced he will not seek reelection for District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-89566","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\/89566","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=89566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}