{"id":30365,"date":"2016-07-13T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/murkowski-wont-attend-gop-convention-with-primary-looming\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:05:38","slug":"murkowski-wont-attend-gop-convention-with-primary-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/murkowski-wont-attend-gop-convention-with-primary-looming\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski won&#8217;t attend GOP convention with primary looming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will be traveling in Alaska next week as part of her re-election campaign and won\u2019t be attending the national Republican convention.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Kallander, a spokeswoman for Murkowski\u2019s re-election campaign, says the convention is about a month before Murkowski\u2019s primary and that Murkowski has a packed travel schedule during the Senate break.<\/p>\n<p>The convention begins Monday in Cleveland. Alaska\u2019s other U.S. senator, Dan Sullivan, has said he plans to attend at least part of the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Kallander says Murkowski is scheduled to leave for a trip next Tuesday in which she will travel by small plane and boat along the Yukon River to visit western Alaska communities.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Shuckerow, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Don Young, says Young traditionally hasn\u2019t attended the convention and decided months ago to be in Alaska during the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will be traveling in Alaska next week as part of her re-election campaign and won\u2019t be attending the national Republican convention. Rachel Kallander, a spokeswoman for Murkowski\u2019s re-election campaign, says the convention is about a month before Murkowski\u2019s primary and that Murkowski has a packed travel schedule during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}