{"id":280177,"date":"2010-02-04T23:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef012877663d67970c"},"modified":"2010-02-04T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:07:23","slug":"dillard-to-offer-update-friday-on-republican-governor-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280177","title":{"rendered":"Dillard to offer update Friday on Republican governor bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Tribune staff<\/em> at 10:04 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Republican governor candidate Kirk Dillard will hold a Friday news conference to offer an update on his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Dillard trails fellow state Sen. Bill Brady by about 400 votes in the GOP governor contest, with only a smattering of absentee and provisional ballots uncounted.<\/p>\n<p>Dillard, who has not conceded defeat, has consulted with a top election law attorney as he mulls whether to seek a recount.<\/p>\n<p>After Tuesday&#8217;s too-close-to-call primary election, Brady and Dillard found themselves in the awkward position of attending a Republican unity breakfast where the point was to rally around the governor nominee.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, Comptroller Dan Hynes today conceded defeat to Gov. Pat Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication from Dillard&#8217;s campaign that he&#8217;s going to follow Hynes&#8217; lead on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Tribune staff at 10:04 p.m. Republican governor candidate Kirk Dillard will hold a Friday news conference to offer an update on his campaign. Dillard trails fellow state Sen. Bill Brady by about 400 votes in the GOP governor contest, with only a smattering of absentee and provisional ballots uncounted. Dillard, who has not [&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-280177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280177","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=280177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}