{"id":1924,"date":"2019-04-02T10:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:01:46","slug":"traber-announces-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/2019\/04\/02\/traber-announces-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Traber Announces Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corvallisadvocate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Traber.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.corvallisadvocate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Traber-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24752\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a surprise Monday morning announcement, Corvallis\u2019 Mayor Biff Traber tossed his hat into an already crowded ring for the Democratic Party\u2019s 2020 presidential nomination. City Councilors, still in last Tuesday\u2019s Council Work Session could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traber, age 69, says he\u2019ll run on a platform of putting legislators to work 24\/7 on the people\u2019s business, and being the only completely white haired candidate that doesn\u2019t constantly yell at the mic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media response was immediate: Both President Trump and Beto O\u2019Rourke tweeting almost simultaneously, \u201cWhat is a Corvallis?\u201d The only other mayor of note running for the Democratic nod is South Bend Indiana\u2019s Peter Buttigieg, who tweeted, \u201cUmm, his name is Biff, and it makes one wonder what future we\u2019ll be going back to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First elected mayor in 2014, Traber handily won another four year term last year. Political analysts quickly sprung to action on Traber\u2019s announcement, finding Oregon on a map, and wondering why the hell Corvallis has all the good beer and cider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2013 Satire By April Pool<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise Monday morning announcement, Corvallis\u2019 Mayor Biff Traber tossed his hat into an already crowded ring for the Democratic Party\u2019s 2020 presidential nomination. City Councilors, still in last Tuesday\u2019s Council Work Session could not be reached for comment. Traber, age 69, says he\u2019ll run on a platform of putting legislators to work 24\/7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7598,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}