{"id":3115,"date":"2023-01-02T02:47:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T08:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:14:19","slug":"new-georgia-house-member-steps-aside-after-drug-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3115","title":{"rendered":"<strong>New Georgia House member steps aside after drug arrest<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican\u00a0arrested after winning\u00a0his race for a seat in the Georgia House has decided to step aside instead of facing a possible suspension as soon as he was sworn into office later this month,<br \/>\nThe decision by Danny Rampey means a special election will be held on Jan. 31 to choose the new representative for the House seat based around Winder, The\u00a0Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u00a0reported.<br \/>\nRampey, 67, was arrested last month after investigators said he stole prescription narcotics at the retirement complex he manages.<br \/>\nRepublican leaders were pressuring Rampey to step aside before new legislators are sworn in on Jan. 9 because the special election to fill the seat would only be for Republicans since Rampey didn\u2019t have a Democratic opponent in November\u2019s election.<br \/>\nRampey\u2019s withdrawal \u201dwill ensure his constituents have a voice in this session of the General Assembly after the special election is held,\u201d said House Speaker Jan Jones and incoming House Speaker Jon Burns in a joint statement to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-drug-crimes-georgia-5acf170222b82c4c5369e9643430da74\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican\u00a0arrested after winning\u00a0his race for a seat in the Georgia House has decided to step aside instead of facing a possible suspension as soon as he was sworn into office later this month, The decision by Danny Rampey means a special election will be held on Jan. 31 to choose the new representative for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1183,3214,3216,3215],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-drug","tag-new-georgia","tag-rampe","tag-special-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}