{"id":103986,"date":"2017-08-22T20:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/perlmutter-reverses-himself-will-run-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T20:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:29:05","slug":"perlmutter-reverses-himself-will-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/perlmutter-reverses-himself-will-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Perlmutter reverses himself, will run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congressman Ed Perlmutter is reversing himself and announcing he\u2019ll run for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Perlmutter had initially announced he was giving up his congressional seat to run for Colorado governor. But he dropped out of that race last month. He said he didn\u2019t have the fire in his belly to run while simultaneously representing the state\u2019s 7th Congressional District. He also acknowledged the Democratic gubernatorial primary was tougher than he expected.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Perlmutter said it\u2019d be unfair to run for re-election to congress since three other Democratic politicians were already competing for his seat.<\/p>\n<p>But Perlmutter announced Monday that he\u2019s changed his mind. He said he\u2019s spoken with the three Democrats who thought they were competing for an open seat. \u201cI understand this is not an ideal situation,\u201d Perlmutter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Ed Perlmutter is reversing himself and announcing he\u2019ll run for re-election. Perlmutter had initially announced he was giving up his congressional seat to run for Colorado governor. But he dropped out of that race last month. He said he didn\u2019t have the fire in his belly to run while simultaneously representing the state\u2019s 7th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[265],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103986"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}