{"id":1355,"date":"2010-08-13T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2010-08-13T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:32:00","slug":"news-brief-lewis-county-jail-workers-endorse-cheeseman-for-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Lewis County Jail workers endorse Cheeseman for sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 39-member group of guards at the Lewis County Jail are endorsing the challenger to their boss in the race for sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>The Lewis County Corrections Guild in a secret ballot vote yesterday decided to support sheriff&#8217;s Sgt. Ken Cheeseman over current Sheriff Steve Mansfield, according to a news release from the president of the guild.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_369\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010.0626.ken_.cheeseman.mug2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-369\" title=\"Ken Cheeseman\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010.0626.ken_.cheeseman.mug2_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2010.0626.ken.cheeseman.mug2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Cheeseman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Twenty-three members participated in the vote and more than 75 percent of them favored Cheeseman, according to the news release. They did not release the specific tally.<\/p>\n<p>The Lewis County Corrections Guild is the labor relations group representing that division of the sheriff&#8217; office.<\/p>\n<p>They chose also to endorse challenger Jonathan Meyer over incumbent Michael Golden in the race for Lewis County Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>The vote-by-mail primary election is this coming Tuesday. The top two candidates in races for county offices will advance to the November general election.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>To read Lewis County Sirens&#8217; June news story about the race for Lewis County Sheriff, <a title=\"&quot;Coming election: Sheriff Mansfield is challenged by one of his own deputies&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=358\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The 39-member group of guards at the Lewis County Jail are endorsing the challenger to their boss in the race for sheriff. The Lewis County Corrections Guild in a secret ballot vote yesterday decided to support sheriff&#8217;s Sgt. Ken Cheeseman over current Sheriff Steve Mansfield, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}