{"id":1651575,"date":"2022-09-21T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651575"},"modified":"2022-09-21T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:50:08","slug":"pandemic-triggers-business-owners-candidacy-for-laguna-niguel-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pandemic-triggers-business-owners-candidacy-for-laguna-niguel-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Triggers Business Owner\u2019s Candidacy for Laguna Niguel City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpandemic-triggers-business-owners-candidacy-for-laguna-niguel-city-council%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jeff von Waldburg, a business owner and 22-year resident, is running in the upcoming Nov. 8 election to fill one of the open seats from terming out Laguna Niguel city councilors. Waldburg\u2019s opponents are Melissa Caldwell, Ray Gennawey, Javad Mokhbery, Stephanie Oddo, and Stephanie Winstead.<\/p>\n<p>Waldburg said he was close to moving out of state amid frustrations from the pandemic\u2019s effect on his hometown but has now doubled down and wants to help lead the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like there was an opportunity for me to make an impact,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/21\/Jeff-von-Waldburg-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Laguna Niguel City Council candidate Jeff von Waldburg in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 13, 2022. (Jack Bradley\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Waldburg graduated from Princeton with a Philosophy major and is now the CEO of a software company, which helps aid veterans in applying for governmental assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Temporary homeschooling was one solution he said he sought for his two daughters, as their school started enforcing mandatory vaccinations in response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like the government telling me what to do with my body and my kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of moving away, Waldburg said he\u2019s decided to step up to the plate in an effort to try and protect the community he has come to love over the years.<\/p>\n<p>As the leader of his own software company, as well as spending many years coaching high school sports in the early 2000s, Waldburg said he has the experience needed to be a voice for residents in the city of roughly 65,000 people and will push back against policies that would negatively impact it.<\/p>\n<p>Through his company, his software has been utilized by the Department of Veterans Affairs to bring around $7 billion into the pockets of veterans over the last couple of decades, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff von Waldburg, a business owner and 22-year resident, is running in the upcoming Nov. 8 election to fill one of the open seats from terming out Laguna Niguel city councilors. Waldburg\u2019s opponents are Melissa Caldwell, Ray Gennawey, Javad Mokhbery, Stephanie Oddo, and Stephanie Winstead. Waldburg said he was close to moving out of state [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}