{"id":31449,"date":"2014-06-24T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31449"},"modified":"2014-06-24T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:50:38","slug":"according-to-ap-republican-clawson-wins-florida-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/06\/according-to-ap-republican-clawson-wins-florida-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"According to AP &#8211; <br>Republican Clawson Wins Florida Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30056\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30056 \" title=\"Clawson,_Curt\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clawson_Curt-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clawson_Curt-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clawson_Curt.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Curt Clawson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Republican Curt Clawson has won the special election in southwest Florida on Tuesday to replace former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, who resigned in January after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman and former Purdue basketball star sailed past Democrat April Freeman and Libertarian Ray Netherwood in a solidly Republican district on the state&#8217;s Gulf Coast. According to early unofficial results, Clawson captured nearly 67 percent of the vote for District 19, which includes most of Lee County and about a third of Collier County.<\/p>\n<p>Clawson will now serve the remainder of Radel&#8217;s term but must face voters again in November to win re-election.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Clawson spent $3.65 million of his own money to win the congressional seat, shelling out most of that during the primary, according to campaign finance reports. Freeman, the Democratic nominee, spent roughly $107,000 on her campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Curt Clawson has won the special election in southwest Florida on Tuesday to replace former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, who resigned in January after pleading guilty to cocaine possession.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}