{"id":4179,"date":"2008-02-13T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/antiwar-gop-congressman-loses-maryland-primary\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:09:57","slug":"antiwar-gop-congressman-loses-maryland-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/antiwar-gop-congressman-loses-maryland-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar GOP Congressman Loses Maryland Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Maryland primary yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=43885\">Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest was defeated<\/a> by a pro-war challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Gilchrest voted for the Iraq War in 2003, but later said he regretted the decision.   Gilchrest later criticized Bush&#8217;s handling of the war and became one of two Republicans (with Ron Paul) to vote last year for a withdrawal timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign against Gilchrest started just a few months after he took office for his ninth term and his challengers were heavily funded by pro-war establishment GOP leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Maryland primary yesterday, Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest was defeated by a pro-war challenger. Gilchrest voted for the Iraq War in 2003, but later said he regretted the decision. Gilchrest later criticized Bush&#8217;s handling of the war and became one of two Republicans (with Ron Paul) to vote last year for a withdrawal timeline. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/4179","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}