{"id":78251,"date":"2025-07-20T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78251\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:58:11","slug":"former-sheriff-alex-villanueva-registers-for-2026-sheriffs-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78251\/","title":{"rendered":"Former sheriff Alex Villanueva registers for 2026 sheriff\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has registered a campaign committee for the November 2026 election to win back his previous post.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva\u2019s is the biggest name yet to declare in the race for the position he lost to Sheriff Robert Luna in 2022. Luna has already declared his<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lunaforsheriff.com\/why-i-am-running\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> plans to seek reelection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/cal-access.sos.ca.gov\/Campaign\/Committees\/Detail.aspx?id=1482463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing on the<\/a> California Secretary of State\u2019s website shows that a Villanueva for Sheriff 2026 committee has been registered.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when the filing was made.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Times Saturday, Villanueva did not immediately respond to questions seeking confirmation about his intentions but he said \u201cI\u2019ll have something available next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luna has run the sheriff\u2019s department with a relatively calm hand, after Villanueva presided over a period of controversy and lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>But Villanueva has maintained a high profile, using social media and appearances on broadcast platforms to weigh in on a wide range of issues concerning the department and county politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has registered a campaign committee for the November 2026 election to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[33792,1582,276,54117,54115,54118,11368,3040,43322,54114,2961,379,224,5337,54116,6176,12498,290,54113,42897],"class_list":{"0":"post-78251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-appearance","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-secretary","12":"tag-campaign-committee","13":"tag-confirmation","14":"tag-controversy","15":"tag-department","16":"tag-filing","17":"tag-former-sheriff-alex-villanueva","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-lawsuit","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-luna","23":"tag-race","24":"tag-sheriff","25":"tag-state","26":"tag-villanueva","27":"tag-website"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114886154864535944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78251","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=78251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}