{"id":588,"date":"2026-08-02T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:36:26","slug":"city-mayor-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"City Mayor ARRESTED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/761578222_927235770391058_1544047176522729269_n-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/761578222_927235770391058_1544047176522729269_n-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/761578222_927235770391058_1544047176522729269_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/761578222_927235770391058_1544047176522729269_n-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/761578222_927235770391058_1544047176522729269_n.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Coldwater awoke to turmoil after re-electing its mayor, only to learn Kansas officials now claim he never had the legal right to vote due to his noncitizen status. A decades-old record went unquestioned, leaving residents stunned and divided. As leaders scramble to keep the town running, questions swirl about how the system failed for so long. The crisis has shaken more than one officeholder\u2014it has fractured the town\u2019s trust in its institutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coldwater awoke to turmoil after re-electing its mayor, only to learn Kansas officials now claim he never had the legal right to vote due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendtrending.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}