{"id":253971,"date":"2026-04-17T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:01:17","slug":"2026-arlington-general-election-candidate-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253971\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Arlington General Election Candidate Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"90\" data-attachment-id=\"491545\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/newsmaker-qa-fort-worth-city-council-district-10-candidates\/electionseasonbanner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/electionseasonbanner.png?fit=970%2C90&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"970,90\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"electionseasonbanner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/electionseasonbanner.png?fit=970%2C90&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/electionseasonbanner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-491545\" style=\"aspect-ratio:10.78136200716846;width:1174px;height:auto\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This event was held on April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Vote smart this spring:\u00a0Fort Worth Report and the League of Women Voters held a candidate forum for the May 2 Arlington general election.<\/p>\n<p>The following races participated in the fourm:<\/p>\n<p>Arlington Mayoral Race<\/p>\n<p>City Council District 3<\/p>\n<p>City Council District 4<\/p>\n<p>City Council District 5<\/p>\n<p>City Council District 8<\/p>\n<p>We chose the most hotly contested and highest-profile races. Unfortunately, time prevents us from having forums for all races. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a0Fort Worth Report, KERA and the League of Women Voters are nonpartisan organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This event was held on April 16, 2026. Vote smart this spring:\u00a0Fort Worth Report and the League of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-253971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}