{"id":420,"date":"2023-01-03T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=420"},"modified":"2023-02-21T05:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T05:54:57","slug":"joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Joel Ongert Runs for West Bend Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/01\/03\/joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/01\/03\/joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westbenddailynews-wi.newsmemory.com?selDate=20230103&amp;goTo=A01&amp;artid=2\">Hoo boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_15\">WEST BEND \u2014 Joel Ongert officially announced on Monday his candidacy for mayor of West Bend in the April 4 general election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_15\">\u201cI will bring a high level of professionalism to the mayor\u2019s office. Equipped with a business degree from Bradley University and 19 years of experience working at Caterpillar Inc., I am prepared to build upon the city\u2019s strategic plan by prioritizing our hard-earned tax dollars on the most important aspects of our local government: public safety, city infrastructure, economic development and quality of life,\u201d said Ongert in the release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_15\">Previously, Ongert had unofficially announced he was running for mayor in a post on April 26, 2022 on his mayoral campaign Facebook page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_15\">According to the release, Ongert said his desire to run for mayor is a result of his involvement in the West Bend community.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ongert is probably the early favorite. He will be well-funded, well-organized, and the Left side of West Bend will rally behind him. He\u2019s one of the guys who ran for School Board with this same kind of conservative rhetoric and then governed like a hardened Leftist. He is also just a terrible person who treats constituents who aren\u2019t fawning acolytes like garbage. West Bend has been shifting Left and Ongert\u2019s election would be another step in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/01\/03\/joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=joel-ongert-runs-for-west-bend-mayor Hoo boy. WEST BEND \u2014 Joel Ongert officially announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}