{"id":3743,"date":"2012-08-06T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2012-08-06T17:47:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:47:33","slug":"congressional-forum-tuesday-august-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Forum Tuesday, August 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PROFS is cosponsoring a forum featuring candidates in Wisconsin&#8217;s  Second Congressional District Democratic primary at 7 pm tomorrow (Tuesday, August 7<strong>)<\/strong> in <strong>Grainger Hall&#8217;s Plenary Room, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.map.wisc.edu\/?initObj=bdg_Grngr&amp;z=65.05&amp;x=-0.279814&amp;y=-0.226281\">975 University Avenue<\/a><\/strong>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/\">University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/\">WISC-TV3<\/a> will host the event and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspro.net\/\">ASPRO<\/a> is also a cosponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Four candidates are on the August 14 ballot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hall4congress.com\/\">Dennis Hall<\/a>, a cyber and electronic security consultant from Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/pocanforcongress.com\/\">Mark Pocan<\/a>, a Madison small-business owner<\/li>\n<li>State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keldaforcongress.com\/\">Kelda Roys<\/a>, a Madison attorney<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/silvermanforcongress.com\/\">Matt Silverman<\/a>, a veteran and 2010 UW-Madison Law School graduate from Madison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WISC-TV3 editorial director Neil Heinen will  moderate and take questions from political science professor Ken Mayer  and political reporter Jessica Arp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION: PROFS is cosponsoring a forum featuring candidates in Wisconsin&#8217;s Second Congressional District Democratic primary at 7 pm tomorrow (Tuesday, August 7) in Grainger Hall&#8217;s Plenary Room, 975 University Avenue. The University of Wisconsin-Madison and WISC-TV3 will&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3743\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,65],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-candidate-forum","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}