{"id":725987,"date":"2026-04-13T23:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/725987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:03:18","slug":"meet-the-candidates-for-state-senate-legislative-district-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/725987\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates for State Senate Legislative District 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legislative District 12, which covers Ahwatukee in Phoenix, south Tempe and west Chandler. Current State Senator Mitzi Epstein has decided not to run for reelection, letting two new Senate candidates step up.<\/p>\n

Patricia \u2018Patty\u2019 Contreras<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While she is not new to the district or the legislature, Patty Contreras is running for State Senate after 3 years as a Representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legislative District 12, which covers Ahwatukee in Phoenix, south Tempe and west Chandler. Current State Senator Mitzi Epstein…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":725988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-725987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116399899103052637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}