{"id":111,"date":"2008-11-03T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:44","slug":"elmer-for-governor-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/elmer-for-governor-1960.html","title":{"rendered":"Elmer For Governor, 1960."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Elmer-L-Anderson-For-Governor-October-15-1960.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/0\/09\/Elmer-L-Anderson-For-Governor-October-15-1960_Detail.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In 1960, Elmer was on the GOP ticket for Governor of the state of Minnesota.  A few short weeks after he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Elmer-L-Anderson-For-Governor-October-15-1960.jpg\">published this ad in The Farmer magazine<\/a>, he won his bid, starting a controversy-free term in charge of the state.    Two short years later, however, he was undone by 91 voters:  in an extremely close election, he lost out to Farm-Labor candidate (and his Lieutenant Governor) Karl Rolvaag.   Despite his Republican heart, Andersen was a self-proclaimed liberal to the end, even endorsing John Kerry during the 2004 election.   <a href=\"http:\/\/news.minnesota.publicradio.org\/features\/2004\/11\/01_stawickie_andersonobit\/\">Andersen passed away shortly thereafter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-4959542093856238695?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1960, Elmer was on the GOP ticket for Governor of the state of Minnesota. A few short weeks after he published this ad in The Farmer magazine, he won his bid, starting a controversy-free term in charge of the state. Two short years later, however, he was undone by 91 voters: in an extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[169,15,208,28,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}