{"id":409254,"date":"2010-03-09T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32736"},"modified":"2010-03-09T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:05:31","slug":"white-house-affirms-support-for-giannoulias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409254","title":{"rendered":"White House affirms support for Giannoulias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias got a show of support from the Obama White House on Tuesday, with Giannoulias here for a Greek Independence Day reception and a meeting with senior advisor David Axelrod.<\/p>\n<p>At the Tuesday briefing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the purpose of Giannoulias meeting with White House aides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, obviously he knows &#8212; he knows David from Chicago.  I don&#8217;t know whether he&#8217;s going to meet with Patrick while he&#8217;s here,&#8221; Gibbs said, a reference to Patrick Gaspard, who handles politics for the White House.  <\/p>\n<p>Said Gibbs, &#8220;Alexi Giannoulias is the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate and has the support and the backing of the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Giannoulias, the state treasurer and a basketball playing buddy of Obama, is running for Obama&#8217;s old Senate seat against GOP nominee Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.).<\/p>\n<p>Giannoulias trip to the White House was first disclosed Monday in this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias got a show of support from the Obama White House on Tuesday, with Giannoulias here for a Greek Independence Day reception and a meeting with senior advisor David Axelrod. At the Tuesday briefing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the purpose of Giannoulias meeting with White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409254","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}