{"id":67802,"date":"2016-04-30T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T19:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67802"},"modified":"2016-04-29T23:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T03:33:23","slug":"wells-challenges-tenney-to-8-debates-before-june-28-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67802","title":{"rendered":"Wells Challenges Tenney to 8 Debates Before June\u00a028 Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67849\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=67849\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67849\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Horizontal-Headshot-2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Wells\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Horizontal-Headshot-2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Horizontal-Headshot-2-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Horizontal-Headshot-2-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Horizontal-Headshot-2-400x320.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Horizontal-Headshot-2.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Updated 042916 11:33 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Steve Wells of Cazenovia, candidate for Congress in New York\u2019s 22nd District,\u00a0today challenged Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney to 8 debates before the June 28\u00a0Congressional Primary Election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to the opportunity to discuss the issues in this campaign and a debate is\u00a0an excellent way to do that,\u201d Wells said. \u201cI want to debate in each county in the 22nd\u00a0Congressional District before June 28. The voters need to know where the candidates\u00a0stand on the issues and I plan to tell them.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wells is an area businessman, a Conservative and a political outsider. He has never\u00a0held public office, but he is ready to put his decades of experience as a criminal\u00a0prosecutor and local businessman to work in the U.S. House of Representatives.\u00a0Career politicians in Albany and Washington are responsible for so many of the\u00a0problems we face today.<\/p>\n<p>Wells is running for Congress to rebuild our economy, decrease federal regulations and\u00a0improve national security.<\/p>\n<p>Primary Day is Tuesday, June 28. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellsforsecurity.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wells for Security<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 042916 11:33 p.m. Steve Wells of Cazenovia, candidate for Congress in New York\u2019s 22nd District,\u00a0today challenged Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney to 8 debates before the June 28\u00a0Congressional Primary Election. \u201cI look forward to the opportunity to discuss the issues in this campaign and a debate is\u00a0an excellent way to do that,\u201d Wells said. \u201cI want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802","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=67802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}