{"id":15387,"date":"2014-02-01T02:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-01T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T02:19:25","slug":"sdmayor-race-heats-up-as-david-alvarez-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/01\/sdmayor-race-heats-up-as-david-alvarez-gains-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"SD-Mayor: Race heats up as David Alvarez gains momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>San Diego Councilman has surged to a tie in the polls<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>After the last round of ballots, Kevin Faulconer was polling well ahead of preogressive councilman David Alvarez. But, Alvarez has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2014\/jan\/21\/alvarez-faulconer-virtually-tied-most-recent-san-d\/\">surged to a dead heat<\/a> in the last few weeks, and the race will come down to turnout in what is yet another election in San Diego. Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2014\/jan\/31\/alvarez-leads-san-diego-mayor-money-race-cash-hand\/\">Alvarez is now very competitive<\/a> in the cash-on-hand race.<\/p>\n<p>So, folks in San Diego, make sure you&#8217;ve voted early. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvarezformayor.com\/\">Alvarez for Mayor website<\/a> has a lot of information on what you can do to help in the final two weeks. In the meantime, here&#8217;s some music to inspire you as you get ready to knock on some doors:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWuCk8yuOvY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>San Diego Councilman has surged to a tie in the polls<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>After the last round of ballots, Kevin Faulconer was polling well ahead of preogressive councilman David Alvarez. But, Alvarez has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2014\/jan\/21\/alvarez-faulconer-virtually-tied-most-recent-san-d\/\">surged to a dead heat<\/a> in the last few weeks, and the race will come down to turnout in what is yet another election in San Diego. Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2014\/jan\/31\/alvarez-leads-san-diego-mayor-money-race-cash-hand\/\">Alvarez is now very competitive<\/a> in the cash-on-hand race.<\/p>\n<p>So, folks in San Diego, make sure you&#8217;ve voted early. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvarezformayor.com\/\">Alvarez for Mayor website<\/a> has a lot of information on what you can do to help in the final two weeks. In the meantime, here&#8217;s some music to inspire you as you get ready to knock on some doors:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWuCk8yuOvY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[11262,4542],"class_list":["post-15387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-11262","tag-4542"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-40b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}