{"id":58676,"date":"2014-10-24T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58676"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:09:34","slug":"mann-runs-as-a-write-in-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58676","title":{"rendered":"Mann Runs as a Write-in Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"head\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Democratic-party.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47087\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Democratic-party.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic party\" width=\"226\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Democratic-party.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Democratic-party-150x138.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Dropline\">Democrat Seeks 22nd District Congressional Seat<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">(Oneida, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) Robert Mann, a Democratic Party activist in Oneida, has announced he is running for Congress in New York\u2019s 22nd Congressional District as a write-in candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">Mann says he is running for Congress because \u201csomeone needs to step forward and offer voters a competitive \u2018American style\u2019 election, instead of the dismal situation we face \u2013 a one-party election in a one-party district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">\u201cWe need a competitive two-party election, in which different points of view are heard,\u201d Mann said. \u201cBy running as a write-in candidate, I want to demonstrate that we Americans still have free elections and are free to exercise our right to choose our own representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">\u201cI stand for the progressive programs and policies, like consumer financial protection, Social Security, Medicare and affordable health care, that help the American middle class and working-class poor. I stand against those who seek to destroy these programs and policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">\u201cLike most people, I am against war, especially war involving uncertain and unreliable allies in parts of the world we do not understand. I do recognize our duty to protect and defend the lives of innocent Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">Mann is a retired technical editor and writer and full-time care-giver who worked as a manuscript editor and developmental editor for W. H. Freeman and Company (an affiliate of Scientific American) in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Seeks 22nd District Congressional Seat (Oneida, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) Robert Mann, a Democratic Party activist in Oneida, has announced he is running for Congress in New York\u2019s 22nd Congressional District as a write-in candidate. Mann says he is running for Congress because \u201csomeone needs to step forward and offer voters a competitive \u2018American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}