{"id":3115,"date":"2018-01-10T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2018-01-10T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:53:05","slug":"saira-blair-says-she-will-not-run-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3115","title":{"rendered":"Saira Blair Says She Will Not Run in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saira Blair (R-59), an undergraduate student at West Virginia University, will not be running for re-election to the West Virginia House of Delegates.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3116\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3116\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3116\" src=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blair-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blair-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blair-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blair-4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saira Blair<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blair represents citizens in Morgan and Berkeley counties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m not running,\u201d Blair said on Talk Radio WRNR this morning. \u201cThis the first time I\u2019ve talked about it. I intend to go to graduate school after WVU and I just didn\u2019t think that it would be appropriate for me to attend grad school out of our state and continue to serve in the legislature. I didn\u2019t think that my constituents would really appreciate that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;If I had someone representing me, I would want them to be spending more time in the district than trying to balance something like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blair says she intends to get her MBA in finance at an out of state school. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat\u2019s a long way off,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Delegate Larry Kump (R) last week announced that he would be running to retake\u00a0 the seat now being vacated by Blair. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saira Blair (R-59), an undergraduate student at West Virginia University, will not be running for re-election to the West Virginia House of Delegates. Blair represents citizens in Morgan and Berkeley counties. \u201cI\u2019m not running,\u201d Blair said on Talk Radio WRNR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}