{"id":86704,"date":"2021-10-30T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=86704"},"modified":"2021-10-30T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:30:01","slug":"nonprofit-leader-anna-beth-gorman-jumps-in-secretary-of-state-race-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=86704","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nonprofit leader Anna Beth Gorman jumps in secretary of state race [in Arkansas]&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arktimes.com\/arkansas-blog\/2021\/10\/29\/nonprofit-leader-anna-beth-gorman-jumps-in-secretary-of-state-race\" target=\"_blank\">AR Times: <\/a>&#8220;<strong>Anna Beth Gorman,<\/strong>\u00a0executive director of the\u00a0<strong>Women\u2019s Foundation of Arkansas<\/strong>, has announced her campaign for secretary of state. Nothing in her release mentions that she\u2019s seeking the Democratic nomination, but she\u2019s wearing a blue blouse in her campaign kickoff and the state Democratic Party is tweeting about her, so there you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019ll face former Pulaski County Election Commissioner\u00a0<strong>Josh Price<\/strong>\u00a0in the primary. On the Republican side, state\u00a0<strong>Rep. Mark Lowery<\/strong>\u00a0(R-Maumelle) and former state\u00a0<strong>Sen. Eddie Joe Williams<\/strong>\u00a0are trying to knock off incumbent\u00a0<strong>John Thurston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon the announcement, Price released this statement: \u201cAs the only candidate with experience running elections, I look forward to contrasting our records on who is better prepared to fight Republican politicians\u2019 attempts to make it harder for Arkansans to vote and who is ready on day one to conduct elections and protect our voting rights.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AR Times: &#8220;Anna Beth Gorman,\u00a0executive director of the\u00a0Women\u2019s Foundation of Arkansas, has announced her campaign for secretary of state. Nothing in her release mentions that she\u2019s seeking the Democratic nomination, but she\u2019s wearing a blue blouse in her campaign kickoff and the state Democratic Party is tweeting about her, so there you go. She\u2019ll face&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86704","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=86704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86705,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86704\/revisions\/86705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}