{"id":11036,"date":"2018-06-13T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2018-06-13T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:20:29","slug":"sun-endorses-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11036","title":{"rendered":"Sun Endorses Jealous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/bs-ed-0613-jealous-endorsement-20180612-story.html\"><em>Baltimore Sun<\/em> endorsed Ben Jealous<\/a> for governor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maryland voters deserve a real choice in November\u2019s election for governor, and we believe Democrat Ben Jealous provides the clearest alternative to Gov. Larry Hogan. It\u2019s not just that the former NAACP president and CEO has the stature or political skills to run a competitive campaign against the popular and extremely well funded Republican incumbent (though he does), it\u2019s that he presents the strongest contrast to the governor in his vision for the state. We give him our endorsement in the Democratic primary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jealous is already doing well in the Baltimore region and this should only aid his efforts there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the Baltimore Sun endorsed Ben Jealous for governor: Maryland voters deserve a real choice in November\u2019s election for governor, and we believe Democrat Ben Jealous provides the clearest alternative to Gov. Larry Hogan. It\u2019s not just that the former NAACP president and CEO has the stature or political skills to run a competitive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sun Endorses Jealous<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1830,626],"tags":[1554,1977],"class_list":["post-11036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-elections","category-endorsements-2","tag-baltimore-sun","tag-ben-jealous"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2S0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions\/11037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}