{"id":19437,"date":"2026-05-21T21:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=19437"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:05:20","slug":"lucas-county-commissioner-anita-lopez-hosts-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/lucas-county-commissioner-anita-lopez-hosts-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas County Commissioner Anita Lopez Hosts Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19438\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19438\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LC-Commissioner-Anita-Lopez-and-Tina-Butts-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LC-Commissioner-Anita-Lopez-and-Tina-Butts-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LC-Commissioner-Anita-Lopez-and-Tina-Butts-355x250.jpg 355w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LC-Commissioner-Anita-Lopez-and-Tina-Butts.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LC Commissioner Anita Lopez and Tina Butts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lucas County Commissioner Anita Lopez held a fundraiser on Thursday, May 14 at La Fiesta on West Sylvania and friends and supporters came out to donate and to join her at the popular restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez is not up for re-election until 2028 but, like many elected officials, she believes that hosting periodic fundraisers throughout her term make sense for a number of reasons. It\u2019s easier on everyone\u2019s pocketbook, for starters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that it\u2019s important to raise a little bit of money every year,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to go to an individual and ask [once every four years] for a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an elected official, periodic gatherings such as last week\u2019s also giver her an opportunity to connect and \u201csee what their needs are because I always want to be accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Food was provided for guests throughout the evening and the food was, in La Fiesta style, outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff Lucas County Commissioner Anita Lopez held a fundraiser on Thursday, May 14 at La Fiesta on West Sylvania and friends and supporters came out to donate and to join her at the popular restaurant. Lopez is not up for re-election until 2028 but, like many elected officials, she believes that hosting periodic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[348],"class_list":["post-19437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19440,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions\/19440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}