{"id":69368,"date":"2016-06-01T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69368"},"modified":"2016-05-31T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T03:10:12","slug":"acu-endorses-george-phillips-for-ny22-congressional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69368","title":{"rendered":"ACU endorses George Phillips for NY22 Congressional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=69369\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69369\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-69369\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Georgephillips.jpg\" alt=\"Georgephillips\" width=\"106\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>The American Conservative Union today announced its endorsement of George Phillips, the leading conservative in New York\u2019s race for the 22nd Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Republican Richard Hanna, who is retiring at the end of his term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Phillips has a long history of standing up for what is right and has worked for conservative values with the Jack Kemp Foundation, pro-life crusader Chris Smith, and President George W. Bush. George Phillips will be a needed voice in<!--more--> Congress and we support him enthusiastically,\u201d said ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m proud to call George a friend and I urge all conservatives to vote for him in the Republican primary on <span data-term=\"goog_82183815\">June 28<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1964, the ACU is the nation\u2019s original conservative organization. For more than 50 years, ACU has served as an umbrella organization harnessing the collective strength of conservative organizations fighting for Americans who are concerned with liberty, personal responsibility, traditional values, and strong national defense. As one of America&#8217;s premier conservative voices, ACU promotes a conservative vision on issues before Congress, the Executive Branch, State Legislatures, the media, political candidates and the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Conservative Union today announced its endorsement of George Phillips, the leading conservative in New York\u2019s race for the 22nd Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Republican Richard Hanna, who is retiring at the end of his term. \u201cGeorge Phillips has a long history of standing up for what is right and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69368","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=69368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}