{"id":31084,"date":"2018-05-11T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31084"},"modified":"2018-05-11T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:00:03","slug":"praise-for-antiwar-congressman-walter-jones-after-his-republican-primary-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/praise-for-antiwar-congressman-walter-jones-after-his-republican-primary-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise for Antiwar Congressman Walter Jones after His Republican Primary Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walter-jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walter-jones-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walter-jones.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>On Tuesday, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who is seeking reelection for what he has indicated will be his final term in the United States House of Representatives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdnews.com\/news\/20180508\/jones-holds-off-law-and-dacey-for-13th-term\">won his Republican Party primary<\/a>. Jones defeated two other candidates \u2014 a Washington, DC lobbyist who holds elective office in the district and one of Jones\u2019 primary opponents from 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Will Rahn wrote a Thursday editorial at CBS News concerning Jones\u2019 primary victory and Jones\u2019 history in the House. In the editorial titled \u201cIn praise of Walter Jones,\u201d Rahn refers to Jones as a \u201cman of conviction in Washington\u201d who has been punished by his party\u2019s leadership because of his independent actions, including, Rhan writes, becoming \u201cone of the GOP&#8217;s most fervent voices for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/commentary-in-praise-of-walter-jones\/\">Read Rhan\u2019s complete editorial here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\">Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity<\/a> Advisory Board.  <\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who is seeking reelection for what he has indicated will be his final term in the United States House of Representatives, won his Republican Party primary. Jones defeated two other candidates \u2014 a Washington, DC lobbyist who holds elective office in the district and one of Jones\u2019 primary opponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31087,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31084\/revisions\/31087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31084"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}