{"id":258867,"date":"2010-02-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:00:00","slug":"jacob-meister-drops-out-backs-giannoulias-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/258867","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Meister drops out, backs Giannoulias for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"SPRINGFIELD — Little-known attorney Jacob Meister is dropping out of the Illinois Senate race and endorsing Democrat Alexi Giannoulias.<\/p>\n

Meister said Sunday that he got into the race to talk about job-creation and progressive issues. As a gay man, he also found himself asked to speak up on problems facing homosexual people.<\/p>\n

But Meister’s campaign never caught fire. Polls found him with single-digit support. <\/span><\/p>\n

Although his name will still appear on Tuesday’s ballot, Meister is asking people to vote for Giannoulias in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

He says Giannoulias will support many of his job ideas and will also fight discrimination.<\/p>\n

Giannoulias leads in the polls, followed by former prosecutor David Hoffman and Cheryle Jackson of the Chicago Urban League.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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SPRINGFIELD — Little-known attorney Jacob Meister is dropping out of the Illinois Senate race and endorsing Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. Meister said Sunday that he got into the race to talk about job-creation and progressive issues. As a gay man, he also found himself asked to speak up on problems facing homosexual people. But Meister’s campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}