{"id":146334,"date":"2025-04-30T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146334"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:59:28","slug":"virginia-rep-connolly-says-he-will-not-seek-reelection-as-cancer-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146334","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Virginia Rep. Connolly says he will not seek reelection as cancer returns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/04\/28\/gerry-connolly-reelection-cancer-oversight-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia), a longtime liberal voice representing Northern Virginia, said Monday that he would not be seeking reelection next year and would step down from his role as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committeeafter his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/11\/07\/gerry-connolly-cancer-virginia-congressman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">esophageal cancer<\/a>returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Connolly, 75, had announced his diagnosis last fall, just days after winning reelection to a ninth term representing the state\u2019s 11th Congressional District, which covers much of Fairfax County.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia), a longtime liberal voice representing Northern Virginia, said Monday that he would not be seeking reelection next year and would step down from his role as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committeeafter his&nbsp;esophageal cancerreturned. Connolly, 75, had announced his diagnosis last fall, just days after winning reelection to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146335,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146334\/revisions\/146335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}