{"id":578820,"date":"2010-05-25T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef013481a06dda970c"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:41:51","slug":"senate-candidate-giannoulias-says-white-house-support-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578820","title":{"rendered":"Senate candidate Giannoulias says White House support on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by John Chase<\/em> at 12:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to deflect notions that President Barack Obama isn\u2019t backing him, Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias announced today two White House officials will be coming to Illinois next month to campaign for him.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Education and former Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan will join Giannoulias on the campaign trail on June 17, followed two days later by Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, the campaign said. Duncan and Giannoulias have been friends for years and both were among a group with then state-senator Obama that regularly played basketball together.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Giannoulias\u2019 campaign didn\u2019t release any more details about the visits. The Democratic state treasurer, who faces Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk in November, has been stung by a series of problems. The most recent and notable issue has been the failure of his family\u2019s bank, which was taken over last month by federal regulators. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Giannoulias won in 2006 with a big assist from Obama. But as Giannoulias moved last year to run for Senate, the White House tried to recruit Attorney General Lisa Madigan to run, signaling to many that Obama wasn\u2019t fully behind Giannoulias. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Since then, Giannoulias and his campaign have sought to show the White House is indeed backing him. Last month, just days after Broadway Bank was taken over, Obama appeared at an event in the Downstate town of Quincy where he hugged Giannoulias and called him the \u201csoon to be senator\u201d from Illinois.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by John Chase at 12:35 p.m. Continuing to deflect notions that President Barack Obama isn\u2019t backing him, Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias announced today two White House officials will be coming to Illinois next month to campaign for him. Secretary of Education and former Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan will join Giannoulias on the [&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-578820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578820","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=578820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}