{"id":15132,"date":"2013-07-25T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-25T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:31:15","slug":"sd16-perez-concedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/25\/sd16-perez-concedes\/","title":{"rendered":"SD-16: Perez concedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Special Election turnout does in Central Valley Democrat<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Try as the Democrats did, they just could not push Leticia Perez past Andy Vidak. Today, she conceded the race:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kern County Supervisor and Democrat Leticia Perez has conceded to her opponent, Republican farmer Andy Vidak, ending a costly and heavily contested race for the Central Valley seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The voters have spoken and I want to congratulate Andy on his victory,&#8221; Perez said in a press release, adding that &#8220;Andy has earned the right to represent us in Sacramento.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2013\/07\/leticia-perez-concedes-16th-senate-district-race.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You would expect this to be an opportunity for a heavily contested race when it comes up again in 2014. Vidak will have incumbency, but a strong Democratic candidate might be able to leverage the higher turnout in a general election to flip this seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Special Election turnout does in Central Valley Democrat<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Try as the Democrats did, they just could not push Leticia Perez past Andy Vidak. Today, she conceded the race:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kern County Supervisor and Democrat Leticia Perez has conceded to her opponent, Republican farmer Andy Vidak, ending a costly and heavily contested race for the Central Valley seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The voters have spoken and I want to congratulate Andy on his victory,&#8221; Perez said in a press release, adding that &#8220;Andy has earned the right to represent us in Sacramento.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2013\/07\/leticia-perez-concedes-16th-senate-district-race.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You would expect this to be an opportunity for a heavily contested race when it comes up again in 2014. Vidak will have incumbency, but a strong Democratic candidate might be able to leverage the higher turnout in a general election to flip this seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[11113,11101],"class_list":["post-15132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-11113","tag-11101"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3W4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}