{"id":18115,"date":"2012-11-19T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18115"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:41:50","slug":"allen-west-rejects-gop-offer-to-run-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18115","title":{"rendered":"Allen West Rejects GOP Offer To Run In Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing his seat to Democrat challenger <strong>Patrick Murphy, Rep. Allen West<\/strong> (R-Fla.) turned down an offer to run for office in Georgia from the state\u2019s Republican Party chairwoman, Sue Everhart, saying that he\u2019 not an \u201cNFL free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, <strong>West<\/strong> addressed <strong>Everhart\u2019s<\/strong> offer, he said, \u201cLook, let me tell you something. I have moved my wife around for 20-some-odd years, being in the military, and she was also the daughter of a career military guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I retired, she chose Florida. That\u2019s where my daughter\u2019s in school, in college, my youngest daughter\u2019s in high school. That\u2019s our home. It\u2019s a very nice thing, but I\u2019m not an NFL free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing his seat to Democrat challenger Patrick Murphy, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) turned down an offer to run for office in Georgia from the state\u2019s Republican Party chairwoman, Sue Everhart, saying that he\u2019 not an \u201cNFL free agent.\u201d In an interview, West addressed Everhart\u2019s offer, he said, \u201cLook, let me tell you something. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}