{"id":758,"date":"2009-03-01T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=758"},"modified":"2009-03-01T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T19:03:32","slug":"mcmillan-to-run-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/01\/mcmillan-to-run-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"McMillan to run for Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-760\" title=\"kim-mcmillan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kim-mcmillan.jpeg\" alt=\"kim-mcmillan\" width=\"140\" height=\"203\" \/>Kim McMillan makes it clear: she\u2019s running for governor. \u201cThese are tough times but I believe in the future of Tennessee because I believe in the people of Tennessee,\u201d said McMillan, Tennessee\u2019s first female House Majority Leader and former member of Governor Bredesen\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor almost a year I\u2019ve been listening to the needs of our neighbors and families and loss is on everybody\u2019s mind\u2013 loss of jobs, loss of homes, loss of health insurance, loss of retirement security. I know that tough times call for leadership that lifts us up and brings us together,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m running for governor because I believe I can bring Tennessee together, and I know that together we can do more than just make it through \u2013 we can make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMillan filed papers to establish an exploratory committee for the 2010 governor\u2019s campaign last spring. \u201cThe people of Clarksville and Montgomery County have been good to me and that\u2019s why I met with my hometown paper to make my intentions clear. I want to make sure they know that I\u2019m in this race and I\u2019m in it all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimmcmillan.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">McMillan<\/a> teaches political science at APSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim McMillan makes it clear: she\u2019s running for governor. \u201cThese are tough times but I believe in the future of Tennessee because I believe in the people of Tennessee,\u201d said McMillan, Tennessee\u2019s first female House Majority Leader and former member of Governor Bredesen\u2019s cabinet. \u201cFor almost a year I\u2019ve been listening to the needs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[696,695,694,693],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}