{"id":8867,"date":"2020-07-17T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:35:24","slug":"senate-district-26-candidate-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8867","title":{"rendered":"Senate District 26 Candidate Questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/capitol-at-dawn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4146\" width=\"297\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/capitol-at-dawn1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/capitol-at-dawn1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/capitol-at-dawn1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, State Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison, the longest serving state legislator in the country, announced he would not run for re-election. Seven Democratic candidates are on the August 11 primary ballot and the winner is almost certain to take office in January since no Republican will be on the November ballot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These candidates will be on the ballot next month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Brian Benford<\/li><li>William Henry Davis III<\/li><li>Nada Elmikashfi<\/li><li>John Imes<\/li><li>Amani Latimer-Burris<\/li><li>Aisha Moe<\/li><li>Kelda Roys<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>PROFS recently reached out to the candidates with a questionnaire and request for video statement. Elmikashfi, Imes and Roys responded and their responses follow in individual posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, State Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison, the longest serving state legislator in the country, announced he would not run for re-election. Seven Democratic candidates are on the August 11 primary ballot and the winner is almost certain to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=8867\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-profs","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","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=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}