{"id":682570,"date":"2010-03-04T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78376"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:09:21","slug":"gop-recruit-drops-house-bid-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682570","title":{"rendered":"GOP Recruit Drops House Bid in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield, Ore., Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/sidleiken.com\/\">Sid Leiken<\/a>, one of the GOP&#8217;s first strong recruits for the 2010 cycle, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/csp\/cms\/sites\/web\/updates\/24523432-55\/leiken-county-springfield-wednesday-board.csp\">dropping a bid<\/a> against Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.). The district, which includes Eugene and runs down the state&#8217;s coastline, has a mere D+2 Cook rating &#8212; it split 49-49 for Kerry and Bush in 2004, although Barack Obama carried it by 11 points in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining GOP contender, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.germond2010.com\/\">Jaynee Germond<\/a>, ran against DeFazio in 2008 as the Constitution Party&#8217;s candidate &#8212; and lost by 69 points. I&#8217;ve asked the NRCC if anyone else is on their radar, but for now this saves one of the Democratic seats that would have been seriously endangered in a GOP wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield, Ore., Mayor Sid Leiken, one of the GOP&#8217;s first strong recruits for the 2010 cycle, is dropping a bid against Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.). The district, which includes Eugene and runs down the state&#8217;s coastline, has a mere D+2 Cook rating &#8212; it split 49-49 for Kerry and Bush in 2004, although Barack Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rzc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}