{"id":19732,"date":"2013-02-21T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19732"},"modified":"2013-02-21T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:45:10","slug":"toi-hutchinson-exits-race-for-jacksons-us-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19732","title":{"rendered":"Toi Hutchinson Exits Race For Jackson\u2019s US House Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO\u00a0 \u2014 A well-known Illinois state senator dropped her bid Sunday for the U.S. House seat vacated by <strong>Jesse Jackson Jr.<\/strong>, narrowing the field and consolidating key support behind another Democrat in a race where gun control has emerged as a central issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Sen. Toi Hutchinson,<\/strong> targeted in recent days by critical anti-gun campaign ads funded by New York Mayor <strong>Michael Bloomberg\u2019s <\/strong>political action committee, said she was leaving the race and swinging her support to former state <strong>Rep. Robin Kelly<\/strong>. The major shake-up came with just nine days to go before the Feb. 26 primary.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO\u00a0 \u2014 A well-known Illinois state senator dropped her bid Sunday for the U.S. House seat vacated by Jesse Jackson Jr., narrowing the field and consolidating key support behind another Democrat in a race where gun control has emerged as a central issue. State Sen. Toi Hutchinson, targeted in recent days by critical anti-gun campaign [&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-19732","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\/19732","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=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}