{"id":230152,"date":"2026-05-13T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:06:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-erin-stewart-responds-to-scrutiny-over-mayoral-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230152\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Gop Gubernatorial Candidate Erin Stewart Responds To Scrutiny Over Mayoral Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Republican candidate for governor Erin Stewart made her first campaign appearance Tuesday since questions emerged about her spending during her time as mayor of New Britain.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Hartford Courant reports that Stewart spent up to 200,000 dollars on her city\u2011issued credit card for personal items. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">At her rally in New Britain Tuesday night, Stewart said she has not seen any of the records in question and has promised to respond to the allegations after this weekend\u2019s Republican convention.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I want you to know that I am in the process of personally engaging a team to obtain all of these records myself and will address everything once I have the facts in front of me \u2013 because that&#8217;s what responsible leadership looks like,\u201d said Stewart.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">State republicans will meet on May 15-16 to decide who will get their party&#8217;s endorsement ahead of the primary race in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican candidate for governor Erin Stewart made her first campaign appearance Tuesday since questions emerged about her spending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-230152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230152","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=230152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}