{"id":64146,"date":"2015-05-22T06:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=64146"},"modified":"2015-05-22T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:20:25","slug":"huffman-to-speak-at-gop-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/05\/22\/huffman-to-speak-at-gop-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffman to speak at GOP luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>VW County Republican information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert County Republican Central Committee will host a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 5, at Willow Bend Country Club. The guest speaker for the luncheon will be Matt Huffman, a 2016 candidate for Ohio\u2019s Fourth Senate District.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64147\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Matt-Huffman-headshot-5-2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64147 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Matt Huffman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Matt-Huffman-headshot-5-2015.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Matt Huffman<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Huffman served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2014. In that time, he led the Ohio House in calling for a Constitutional Convention of the States for the purposes of passing a Balanced Budget Amendment. Ohio is currently one of 27 states that have passed legislation calling for such a convention. A total of 37 are necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the Ohio General Assembly, Huffman had been a strong proponent of other conservative causes, supporting school choice, pro-life initiatives, and Second Amendment rights. In 2014, Huffman proposed legislation that would repeal and replace the national education standards popularly known as Common Core.<\/p>\n<p>For a preview of Huffman\u2019s talk, listeners can tune into the Commissioners\u2019 Corner radio show that will air on 99.7 WKSD Sunday, May 31, at 8:20 a.m. A link to that broadcast will be available after that date on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wksd997.com\">www.wksd997.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanwertcounty.org\">www.vanwertcounty.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW County Republican information The Van Wert County Republican Central Committee will host a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 5, at Willow Bend Country Club. The guest speaker for the luncheon will be Matt Huffman, a 2016 candidate for Ohio\u2019s Fourth Senate District. Huffman served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 13:45:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}