{"id":20437,"date":"2013-04-04T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20437"},"modified":"2013-04-04T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:50:54","slug":"pres-obama-endorses-robin-kelly-to-replace-jesse-jackson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20437","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Endorses Robin Kelly To Replace Jesse Jackson Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who once backed <strong>Jesse Jackson Jr.<\/strong> for Illinois\u2019 2nd District is supporting the former congressman\u2019s likely successor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> on Tuesday endorsed <strong>Robin Kelly<\/strong> in the race to replace <strong>Jackson<\/strong>, who resigned from the seat last year amid a federal investigation and later pleaded guilty to misspending hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI share <strong>Robin\u2019s<\/strong> passionate advocacy to end gun violence with common sense solutions because like her, I believe families impacted by gun violence \u2013 especially in my home city of Chicago \u2013 deserve a vote,\u201d <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said in a statement. \u201cI urge you to elect <strong>Robin Kelly<\/strong> as your representative in the United State Congress.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who once backed Jesse Jackson Jr. for Illinois\u2019 2nd District is supporting the former congressman\u2019s likely successor. President Barack Obama on Tuesday endorsed Robin Kelly in the race to replace Jackson, who resigned from the seat last year amid a federal investigation and later pleaded guilty to misspending hundreds of thousands of dollars [&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-20437","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\/20437","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=20437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}