{"id":13010,"date":"2025-09-07T23:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-and-brewery-owner-joins-race-for-sen-collins-seat-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:21:49","slug":"democrat-and-brewery-owner-joins-race-for-sen-collins-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-and-brewery-owner-joins-race-for-sen-collins-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat and brewery owner joins race for Sen. Collins&#8217; seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Democrat is jumping into the crowded race to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Maine brewery owner Dan Kleban, 48, announced  in a kickoff video Wednesday that he is mounting a Senate bid because Collins has &ldquo;been in Washington for 30 years, she stopped looking out for us&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/03\/congress\/maine-brewmaster-latest-to-challenge-sen-collins-00541262\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Democrat is jumping into the crowded race to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Maine brewery owner Dan Kleban, 48, announced in a kickoff video Wednesday that he is mounting a Senate bid because Collins has &ldquo;been in Washington for 30 years, she stopped looking out for us&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}