announced her reelection bid<\/a>, emphasizing her new appointment as Senate Budget Committee Chairman and the boost to District 1 that this could represent. Historically, District 1 has not held this seat since prior to 1930.<\/p>\n
\nAhrens Official Press Release:<\/p>\n
Dear supporters,<\/p>\n
It is with much sadness that I come to you today.<\/p>\n
After many discussions with the Rohrer campaign and my own advisors, I have decided for the good of the Conservative movement in District 1 that I will step out of the race at this time.<\/p>\n
This was a difficult decision for me as I felt like I had the organization and overwhelming
\nsupport to win against Senator Keough, however, I could see that a three way race would have clearly split the vote.<\/p>\n
As my discussions with the Rohrer campaign didn’t bear fruit and as the chairman of the Bonner County Republican Central Committee, I felt the time has come to show leadership in promoting the Conservative movement.<\/p>\n
To my supporters, please join me in personally supporting the remaining Conservative candidate for the Idaho District 1 Senate race. In the meantime, I will be laying the groundwork toward a possible run in 2018 and will continue my leadership in the Conservative movement in North Idaho and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n
God Bless….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Danielle Ahrens announced today that she will suspend her campaign for Idaho State Senate, District 1. Sitting with Redoubt News today, she explained her decision. “It is a numbers game,” Ahrens explained.” When you are splitting the vote against a 20 year incumbent, with a set supporter base, you only have a slim margin to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-volume-50","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}