{"id":193489,"date":"2025-06-01T20:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193489"},"modified":"2025-06-01T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:15:47","slug":"residents-invited-to-meet-and-greet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/06\/01\/residents-invited-to-meet-and-greet\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents invited to meet and greet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are faced with a choice to make in the next primary for our State Senator in District 1 here in northwest Ohio.&nbsp;Two good Republicans are running against one another but one stands out as the best choice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our former State Representative, Craig Riedel of Defiance, has decided to enter this race.&nbsp;Craig is intimately in tune with the will and the needs of Van Wert County as our former House District 82 Representative.&nbsp; Craig is a strong conservative who believes in eliminating Ohio&#8217;s income tax, lower property taxes, ending preferential programs like DEI, and forming a state based DOGE team.&nbsp;Craig was also a State Representative instrumental in crafting legislation to provide local control avenues for Ohio&#8217;s citizens on industrial wind and solar projects.&nbsp;Craig is not anti-wind or solar, he is pro-community choice.&nbsp;His stance is to let the local citizens decide the future of their communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig has organized a meet and greet, town hall style, gathering set for 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, at the Ohio City Community Building.&nbsp;It will be a great opportunity for those who do not know Craig as well as I do, to get to know him and ask him questions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ask that you consider giving Craig your support in the next primary and please come on June 25 and see for yourself that Craig will be a great leader for Van Wert County in the Ohio Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeremy Kitson<br>Wren<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: We are faced with a choice to make in the next primary for our State Senator in District 1 here in northwest Ohio.&nbsp;Two good Republicans are running against one another but one stands out as the best choice.&nbsp; Our former State Representative, Craig Riedel of Defiance, has decided to enter this race.&nbsp;Craig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 01:42:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193490,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193489\/revisions\/193490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}