{"id":37104,"date":"2013-09-26T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=37104"},"modified":"2013-09-26T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:51:00","slug":"leonard-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/leonard-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard named to list of top rising conservative leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Tom Leonard<!--more--><br \/>\nThe American Conservative Union recently named state Rep. Tom Leonard to its top \u201c10 under 40\u201d list of promising young conservative leaders.<br \/>\nThis is the second year in a row that a Michigan legislator has been named to the ACU\u2019s list. Last year, Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons, R-Alto, was also tapped as a rising conservative leader.<br \/>\n\u201cThe conservative values of limited government and economic freedom are the foundation of our great nation,\u201d said Leonard, R-DeWitt Township. \u201cI am honored to be included on this list of up-and-coming conservative leaders, and I will continue to search for real solutions to the problems that are facing Michigan today.\u201d<br \/>\nState Reps. Eric Burlison, Paul Curtman and Casey Guernsey of Missouri were also among the top 10 rising leaders in 2013, as well as state Rep. Tyler August of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Board Supervisor Deanna Alexander.<br \/>\nThe \u201c10 under 40\u201d have been invited to speak at the 2013 regional Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in St. Louis, Mo. on September 28. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Tom Leonard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}