{"id":43698,"date":"2019-09-05T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=43698"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:39:13","slug":"emmons-announces-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=43698","title":{"rendered":"Emmons announces run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10123\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Emmons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Emmons-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Emmons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Businessman John Emmons announced his candidacy for Congress in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 6th Congressional District, Wednesday. Speaking to a group of more than 100 supporters at the VFW Hall in Parkesburg, Emmons kicked off his campaign:<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The 2020 election will be a fight for the soul of our country, and as most of you know, I\u2019m not afraid of a fight.\u00a0We need strong, unwavering voices in Washington fighting for time-tested, common sense conservative solutions.\u00a0I will be one of those voices.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Emmons continued:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I am not a politician. I am a husband and father.\u00a0I have worked in the business world for four decades managing large organizations.\u00a0I have been a grassroots conservative leader and an active member of the Republican party in Chester County for more than a decade.\u00a0I am a man of faith.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Our campaign will be built on standing up for the promise of America.\u00a0We need more people to stand up.\u00a0More parents.\u00a0More businessmen and women.\u00a0More faith leaders.\u00a0More concerned citizens.\u00a0What we don&#8217;t need is more career politicians trying to climb the political ladder.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Emmons&#8217; platform will focus on health care reform, fixing the broken immigration system, and empowering businesses to create jobs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A chemical engineer, John Emmons is a longtime activist, having founded conservative organizations and held leadership roles in the local county party.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman John Emmons announced his candidacy for Congress in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 6th Congressional District, Wednesday. Speaking to a group of more than 100 supporters at the VFW Hall in Parkesburg, Emmons kicked off his campaign: &#8220;The 2020 election will be a fight for the soul of our country, and as most of you know, I\u2019m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320,12429,7426,12428],"class_list":["post-43698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-election-2020","tag-featured","tag-john-emmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43698","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=43698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43699,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43698\/revisions\/43699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}