{"id":7151,"date":"2012-02-17T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2012-02-17T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:47:08","slug":"howard-gets-on-ballot-to-challenge-pileggi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"Howard gets on ballot to challenge Pileggi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em><strong>Unionville man doubles number of signatures needed to force GOP state Senate primary<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7153\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RogerHoward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7153\" class=\" wp-image-7153 \" style=\"border: 2px solid navy; margin: 4px;\" title=\"RogerHoward\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RogerHoward-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Howard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Roger Howard, State Senate Candidate in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> District, submitted twice the required signatures on nominating petitions to run for the office.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Howard submitted more than twice the required number of signed petitions of support for his candidacy.\u00a0 Despite confusion as to the real outlines of the 9<sup>th<\/sup> District, due to redistricting challenges, Howard was able to secure a surplus of signatures.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of our volunteers,\u201d Howard said, \u201cwho went door to door to make the case for changing business as usual in Harrisburg.\u201d\u00a0 Howard\u2019s campaign is supported by a diverse group of volunteers from all over the 9<sup>th<\/sup> District.\u00a0 Campaign volunteers include stay at home Moms, military veterans and professionals who are bringing their time and talents to support this candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to bringing my ideas to the people.\u00a0 This is just the beginning of challenging the status quo and energizing people to become informed and involved,\u201d\u00a0 Howard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unionville man doubles number of signatures needed to force GOP state Senate primary EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Roger Howard, State Senate Candidate in the 9th District, submitted twice the required signatures on nominating petitions to run for the office. This week, Howard submitted more than twice the required number of signed petitions of support for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[252,128,82],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-election-2012","tag-pileggi","tag-state-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}