{"id":10847,"date":"2020-09-21T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/?page_id=10847"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:56:10","slug":"learn-about-your-ballot-and-your-candidates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/program-areas\/learn-about-your-ballot-and-your-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about Your Ballot and Your Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ypsicanishare.com\/\">Ypsi, Can I Share?<\/a>&nbsp; Especially for voters in the City of Ypsilanti, Pittsfield Township, Superior Township, and Ypsilanti Township.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lots of information, but see short videos for candidates for all the races on this website\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ypsicanishare.com\/blog\/your-ballot-talks\">Talking Ballots<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Circles of Washtenaw County &#8211; great newsletters on specific races!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/4c7a77027d1e\/why-local-judge-elections-matter-for-ypsilanti\">Why do judge elections matter for Washtenaw County?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><u><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Washtenaw Food Policy Council State Representative Candidate Forum<\/strong><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday September 30th, 7-8:30pm, On Zoom (link provided after registration)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>REGISTER AT:\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3bM6kFJ\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/3bM6kFJ<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidate forums, are a non-partisan opportunity for the public to connect with candidates before an election. This forum will focus specifically on issues related to&nbsp;<strong>local food systems, healthy food access, and agriculture<\/strong>&nbsp;and will be moderated by&nbsp;Zoe Clark of Michigan Radio&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s Just Politics.&#8221;&nbsp;The event is free and open to all interested people but registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The invited candidates who are running for the four State Representative Districts of Washtenaw County are (<strong>bold<\/strong>&nbsp;= confirmed):<br>District 52 &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Donna Lasinski<\/strong>, Greg Marquis<br>District 53 &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Jean Holland, Yousef Rabhi<\/strong><br>District 54 &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Martin Church<\/strong>, Ronnie Peterson<br>District 55 &#8211; Bob Baird,&nbsp;<strong>Felicia Brabec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Register\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3bM6kFJ\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. View the Facebook Event Page\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/606077453390155\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ypsi, Can I Share?&nbsp; Especially for voters in the City of Ypsilanti, Pittsfield Township, Superior Township, and Ypsilanti Township. Lots of information, but see short videos for candidates for all the races on this website\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Talking Ballots. Circles of Washtenaw County &#8211; great newsletters on&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/program-areas\/learn-about-your-ballot-and-your-candidates\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10869,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10847\/revisions\/10869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}