{"id":273,"date":"2021-10-09T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T03:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colchesterrepublicans.org\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:44:59","slug":"john-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/john-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">John Thomas<\/h2>\r\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color: #f5fafd; text-align: left;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-241 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jt_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/>Running for First Selectman:<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<h4>As a candidate for First Selectman, I am running on three guiding principles:<br \/>1. TRANSPARENCY \u2013 ensuring town government is open, honest, and accessible to our Colchester citizens.<br \/>2. ACCOUNTABILITY \u2013 holding leaders responsible for results, not excuses.<br \/>3. EXPERIENCE \u2013 bringing decades of proven leadership in business and finance to serve Colchester effectively.<br \/><br \/>I am a proud conservative with a proven record against \u201ctax and spend\u201d politics. I believe the challenges facing Colchester require common sense, solution-driven leadership that unites voters from both sides of the aisle. I am focused on delivering results for our town, not partisan politics.<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<li>Current Member of the Board of Finance<\/li>\r\n<li>Colchester Resident for 9 Years<\/li>\r\n<li>Business Owner and Corporate Executive for over 40 Years, with experience ranging from Sales and Management of Fortune 100 Companies to Building Successful Businesses<\/li>\r\n<li>Married to my lovely wife, Natalie, for 39 years<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Thomas Running for First Selectman: As a candidate for First Selectman, I am running on three guiding principles:1. TRANSPARENCY \u2013 ensuring town government is open, honest, and accessible to our Colchester citizens.2. ACCOUNTABILITY \u2013 holding leaders responsible for results, not excuses.3. EXPERIENCE \u2013 bringing decades of proven leadership in business and finance to serve&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/john-thomas\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colchesterrepublicans.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}