{"id":7758,"date":"2016-08-25T23:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T06:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/democrat-drops-out-of-house-race-for-anchorage-district\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T06:07:14","slug":"democrat-drops-out-of-house-race-for-anchorage-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/democrat-drops-out-of-house-race-for-anchorage-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat drops out of House race for Anchorage district"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic candidate Ed Cullinane has withdrawn from his Anchorage campaign for a seat in the Alaska House.<\/p>\n

Cullinane, in a statement emailed to reporters Wednesday night, said \u201cpersonal health issues have made continuing this particular race impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cullinane had been running against independent Jason Grenn and incumbent Republican Rep. Liz Vazquez in House District 22, which represents the Anchorage neighborhood of Sand Lake. <\/p>\n

Cullinane\u2019s withdrawal leaves Vazquez facing only an independent candidate in November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic candidate Ed Cullinane has withdrawn from his Anchorage campaign for a seat in the Alaska House. Cullinane, in a statement emailed to reporters Wednesday night, said \u201cpersonal health<\/a> issues have made continuing this particular race impossible.\u201d Cullinane had been running against independent Jason Grenn and incumbent Republican Rep. Liz Vazquez in House District 22, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":7759,"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-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","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=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}