{"id":980,"date":"2008-06-06T12:13:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-candidate-withdraws-from-house-race\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T16:45:37","slug":"kent-candidate-withdraws-from-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-candidate-withdraws-from-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent candidate withdraws from House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Albertson, D-Kent, has withdrawn from the race for state House Position One in the 33rd Legislative District, her campaign announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with sadness and regret that we make this announcement,&#8221; said Campaign Chairman Lee Somerstein, &#8220;but Elizabeth faces a family crisis that will require all her attention in the coming weeks and months. Our prayers are with Elizabeth and her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somerstein in a phone interview noted the candidate is stepping out of the race due to the illness of two family members.<\/p>\n<p>Albertson announced her candidacy to replace retiring Rep. Shay Schual-Berke more than a month ago, and had been steadily growing a base of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elizabeth has asked me to thank everyone who has contributed time, money and support to this effort,&#8221; Somerstein said. &#8220;We know, with her experience, intellect, energy and passion, she will make an outstanding legislator in the future. We have not heard the last from this outstanding community leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elizabeth also has asked that her friends throw their support behind the other Democratic candidate in the race, Tina Orwall,&#8221; added Somerstein, of the Normandy Park resident and former chairwoman of the 33rd District Democratic Party. &#8220;Ms. Orwall stands for the Democratic Party values we all cherish and it is time for us all to unite and keep this House seat in the Democratic Caucus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family crisis spurs Elizabeth Albertson&#8217;s political departure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}