{"id":38827,"date":"2023-12-14T11:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=38827"},"modified":"2023-12-18T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:53:35","slug":"bristol-mayor-refuses-to-attend-improper-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/12\/14\/bristol-mayor-refuses-to-attend-improper-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol mayor refuses to attend &#8216;improper&#8217; meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/marvin-referendum-scaled-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34176\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marvin Rees is refusing to attend the &#8216;improper&#8217; meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bristol mayor Marvin Rees is refusing to attend a meeting to discuss the spending of \u00a310,000 by the regional mayor, Dan Norris, on a bus advert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The West of England Combined Authority have said the political campaign was &#8220;unlawful&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A meeting is set to take place this morning, but has already been pushed back by an hour after already being postponed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-67709383\">seen by the BBC<\/a>, Mr Rees has described the proceedings as &#8220;improper&#8221; and will not be taking part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bus advert was removed from public view, which included a large image of Dan Norris and his dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, Mr Norris defended himself saying mayors &#8220;are meant to be visible&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting is set to take place at 11am today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol mayor Marvin Rees is refusing to attend a meeting to discuss the spending of \u00a310,000 by the regional mayor, Dan Norris, on a bus advert. The West of England Combined Authority have said the political campaign was &#8220;unlawful&#8221;. A meeting is set to take place this morning, but has already been pushed back by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38827"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38935,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827\/revisions\/38935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}