{"id":27380,"date":"2011-11-09T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27380"},"modified":"2011-11-09T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:17:51","slug":"virginia-senate-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27380","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Senate Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else tracking these returns?\u00a0 I stayed up WAY TOO LATE last night watching them, and this morning I find myself still watching them.\u00a0 The GOP needed 2 pickups, and they have 1 already, and the second?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Senate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27381\" title=\"Senate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Senate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Senate.jpg 835w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Senate-300x68.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov\/election\/DATA\/2011\/EB178FD6-875D-4B0D-A295-900A0482F523\/Unofficial\/7_p1_s.shtml\">Results are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One congratulation is in order, in Virginia&#8217;s 13th district, which is Loudon and Prince William County, Dick Black was elected to the Senate.\u00a0 I used to attend Senator Black&#8217;s functions back when he was a delegate.\u00a0 But, the reason I know him is because when I came home from Bosnia he was there when I got a state medal that had a big sticker on it that read &#8220;Made in China&#8221;.\u00a0 Needless to say, I was displeased with that.\u00a0 Anyway, then-Delegate Black authored a bill to ensure that all future medals given by the Commonwealth would be American Made.\u00a0 That bill passed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was at one of Delegate Black&#8217;s functions that I got to spend some extended time with a former VA US Senate Candidate, Ollie North.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my thanks to the people of Loudon and Prince William for sending this outstanding man, and veteran, off to Richmond again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else tracking these returns?\u00a0 I stayed up WAY TOO LATE last night watching them, and &hellip; <a title=\"Virginia Senate Returns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27380\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virginia Senate Returns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}