{"id":10124,"date":"2017-07-27T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:27:11","slug":"luke-messer-91-announces-senate-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2017\/07\/27\/luke-messer-91-announces-senate-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Messer \u201991 Announces Senate Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Messer_Luke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10125 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Messer_Luke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"194\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Luke Messer announced Wednesday on Twitter he will seek the Republican nomination for the Senate seat of Democrat Joe Donnelly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in!!&#8221; Messer, R-6th, tweeted\u00a0above what appears to be a campaign poster that states &#8220;I Like Luke U.S. Senate 2018.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Messer, 48, has been a member of the House since 2013, representing east-central and southeast Indiana in the seat\u00a0that Vice President Mike Pence left to become governor. Messer is a top advocate for expanding school choice and voucher programs. As chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, he\u00a0is the fifth-ranking GOP\u00a0representative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/news\/local\/local-politics\/20170726\/messer-announces-senate-bid\">Click here<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Luke Messer announced Wednesday on Twitter he will seek the Republican nomination for the Senate seat of Democrat Joe Donnelly. &#8220;We&#8217;re in!!&#8221; Messer, R-6th, tweeted\u00a0above what appears to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Messer_Luke.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10127,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}