{"id":13440,"date":"2016-09-07T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2016-09-07T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:23:09","slug":"gary-johnson-snags-newspaper-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/gary-johnson-snags-newspaper-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson snags newspaper endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/04\/politics\/gary-johnson-richmond-times-dispatch\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160816091901-gary-johnson-bill-weld-aug-6-large-tease.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson received the endorsement of a prominent Virginia paper in an editorial posted Saturday night, notching a Labor Day weekend win for his third party bid.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/opinion\/our-opinion\/article_b79cc2b6-8ed5-532c-92eb-4a37e779c433.html\" target=\"_blank\">glowing appraisal<\/a> of Johnson&#8217;s candidacy by the Richmond Times-Dispatch&#8217;s editorial board contrasts the former New Mexico governor with Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton, both of whom lack the proper character traits to be president, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton meets the fundamental moral and professional standards we have every right to expect of an American president,&#8221; the editorial board writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The editorial also called for Johnson to join the nationally-televised debates alongside Trump and Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/04\/politics\/gary-johnson-richmond-times-dispatch\/index.html\">Gary Johnson snags newspaper endorsement &#8211; CNNPolitics.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson received the endorsement of a prominent Virginia paper in an editorial posted Saturday night, notching a Labor Day weekend win for his third party bid. The glowing appraisal of Johnson&#8217;s candidacy by the Richmond Times-Dispatch&#8217;s editorial board contrasts the former New Mexico governor with Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton, both of whom lack the proper character traits to be president, the paper said. &#8220;Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton meets the fundamental moral and professional standards we have every right to expect of an American president,&#8221; the editorial board writes. &#8230; The editorial also called for Johnson to join the nationally-televised debates alongside Trump and Clinton. Source: Gary Johnson snags newspaper endorsement &#8211; CNNPolitics.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-13440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-gary-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}