{"id":192323,"date":"2026-04-10T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192323\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:55:07","slug":"leah-halton-pope-to-run-for-141st-district-ny-state-assembly-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192323\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah Halton-Pope to run for 141st District NY State Assembly seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Buffalo Common Council Member Leah Halton-Pope says she is seeking to fill her former boss\u2019s seat in the New York State Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Halton-Pope previously served as Peoples-Stokes\u2019 chief of staff. Halton-Pope praised Peoples-Stokes\u2019 legacy in a statement, calling her \u201cmore than a leader\u2026 an institution,\u201d and crediting her with leaving an \u201cindelible imprint\u201d on the city, county, and state.<\/p>\n<p>A new Democratic nominee must be selected by April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Buffalo Common Council Member Leah Halton-Pope says she is seeking to fill her former boss\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-192323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}