{"id":38194,"date":"2018-01-26T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=38194"},"modified":"2018-01-26T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:59:17","slug":"meehan-wont-seek-reelection-in-the-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=38194","title":{"rendered":"Meehan won’t seek reelection in the 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-7)<\/p><\/div>\n

Amidst a scandal involving alleged sexual harassment of a staffer and a public payout of funds to settle, U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-7) announced Thursday that he would not seek reelection for his seat in Congress from the 7th District.<\/p>\n

Meehan came under increasing pressure this week after a New York Times<\/em> story detailed an alleged harassment incident with a now former staffer and a reputed cash settlement to her from public funds.<\/p>\n

After an interview with The Inquirer<\/em> where Meehan referred to the woman as his “soul mate” \u2014 all while saying that no romantic relationship had occurred \u2014 pressure ramped up on him to leave his seat.<\/p>\n

With Meehan out of the picture, the GOP will be looking for a replacement candidate, while Democrats have a large roster of candidate running for a seat largely seen as in play prior to Meehan’s withdrawal from the race.<\/p>\n

Another issue: the state Supreme Court ruling that declared the state’s Congressional districts as being in violation of the state Constitution could mean an entirely new 7th District \u2014 one likely more favorable to Democrats. Pennsylvania Republicans have sought a stay of the ruling in the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing a lack of time to implement new maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amidst a scandal involving alleged sexual harassment of a staffer and a public payout of funds to settle, U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-7) announced Thursday that he would not seek reelection for his seat in Congress from the 7th District. Meehan came under increasing pressure this week after a New York Times story detailed an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9789,7426,2132,592],"class_list":["post-38194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-election-2018","tag-featured","tag-patrick-meehan","tag-redistricting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38195,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions\/38195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}