{"id":9816,"date":"2018-03-07T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:18:18","slug":"gaithersburg-electeds-endorse-balcombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9816","title":{"rendered":"Gaithersburg Electeds Endorse Balcombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Council At-Large candidate Marilyn Balcombe has announced endorsements from three elected officials in Gaithersburg: Mayor Jud Ashman and City Council Members Mike Sesma and Neil Harris.\u00a0 Balcombe is the long-time President and CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce and lives in Germantown.\u00a0 Gaithersburg, including both the incorporated and unincorporated areas, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9789\">more than 40,000 registered Democrats<\/a> of whom roughly 3,500 have voted in each of the last three mid-term Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Left to right: Sesma, Harris and Balcombe, Ashman.\u00a0 Credit: Balcombe for Council Facebook page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Balcombe-Gaithersburg-electeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Balcombe-Gaithersburg-electeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Balcombe-Gaithersburg-electeds.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Balcombe-Gaithersburg-electeds-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Balcombe-Gaithersburg-electeds-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Balcombe-Gaithersburg-electeds-1024x746.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Council At-Large candidate Marilyn Balcombe has announced endorsements from three elected officials in Gaithersburg: Mayor Jud Ashman and City Council Members Mike Sesma and Neil Harris.\u00a0 Balcombe is the long-time President and CEO of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce and lives in Germantown.\u00a0 Gaithersburg, including both the incorporated and unincorporated areas, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gaithersburg Electeds Endorse Balcombe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,341],"tags":[1536,1603,2013,2068,1999],"class_list":["post-9816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaithersburg","category-jud-ashman","tag-gaithersburg","tag-jud-ashman","tag-marilyn-balcombe","tag-michael-sesma","tag-neil-harris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2yk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}