{"id":96874,"date":"2018-09-21T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96874"},"modified":"2018-09-21T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:17:52","slug":"statement-from-sen-david-j-valesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96874","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Sen. David J. Valesky"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62276\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62276\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/valesky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/valesky.jpg 250w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/valesky-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David J. Valesky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Statement from Sen. David J. Valesky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that all the votes have been counted, I congratulate Rachel May on her win in the Democratic primary. Ms. May and her supporters deserve credit for their hard work and tireless advocacy on behalf of progressive causes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In June, many of my supporters devoted considerable time and effort in helping to secure the Independence Party and Women\u2019s Equality Party lines. As a result, my name will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot. Since last week\u2019s primary, countless individuals have urged me to actively campaign as an independent. Out of respect for them, I will take some time to consider all options going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from Sen. David J. Valesky &#8220;Now that all the votes have been counted, I congratulate Rachel May on her win in the Democratic primary. Ms. May and her supporters deserve credit for their hard work and tireless advocacy on behalf of progressive causes. &#8220;In June, many of my supporters devoted considerable time and effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96874","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\/96874","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=96874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}