{"id":274885,"date":"2010-02-03T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a85d5645970b"},"modified":"2010-02-03T22:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:36:47","slug":"democrat-concedes-defeat-in-close-state-comptroller-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274885","title":{"rendered":"Democrat concedes defeat in close state comptroller contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Tribune staff<\/em> at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Raja Krishnamoorthi tonight conceded defeat to state Rep. David Miller in the Democratic comptroller contest.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, a dentist from south suburban Lynwood, held a lead of more than 8,000 votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnamoorthi, a former deputy state treasurer from Hoffman Estates, did not end his campaign Tuesday night, saying he wanted to wait until all the votes were counted.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, he issued a statement ending his bid.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A little while ago, I called David Miller to congratulate him on becoming the Democratic nominee for Illinois state comptroller,&quot; the statement read. &quot;This is not the outcome we had hoped for, and we all wish last night and today would have included a victory celebration. Indeed, we came within a whisker of winning.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Miller will face Republican Judy Baar Topinka, the former state treasurer and governor candidate who is attempting a political comeback.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Tribune staff at 9:30 p.m. Raja Krishnamoorthi tonight conceded defeat to state Rep. David Miller in the Democratic comptroller contest. Miller, a dentist from south suburban Lynwood, held a lead of more than 8,000 votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Krishnamoorthi, a former deputy state treasurer from Hoffman Estates, did not end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274885","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}