{"id":614,"date":"2016-05-16T11:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:39:01","slug":"bost-campaign-launches-job-creator-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Bost Campaign Launches Job Creator Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Murphysboro, IL<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Congressman Mike Bost announced his Job Creator Coalition at a breakfast on Monday, May 16<sup>th<\/sup>, in O\u2019Fallon.\u00a0 This coalition, a group of business owners formed in support of the campaign, comprises 30 small business owners across the 12<sup>th<\/sup> district. <a href=\"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/2016\/05\/bost-congress-job-creator-coalition\/\">You can see this list of names here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a former small business owner myself, I know that these companies are the lifeblood of the Southern Illinois\u2019 economy,\u201d said Bost.\u00a0 \u201cI am proud to have these hardworking men and women, regardless of whether President Obama believes they built their companies or not.\u00a0 I am fighting for a pro-jobs agenda in Congress of lower taxes and less regulation because that\u2019s the only way for America to meet its full potential in a competitive global marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bost has earned the support of national pro-business groups such as the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), because of his pro-jobs record. He is running to limit government regulation and fight for lower taxes so working families in Illinois can thrive.<\/p>\n<p>First elected in 2014, Mike Bost represents Illinois\u2019 12<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional District in the United States Congress. A retired U.S. Marine and former firefighter, Mike and his wife Tracy own a business in their hometown of Murphysboro, IL.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to schedule an interview, call Evan Handy at 405-570-8665 or email him at <a href=\"mailto:evan@bostforcongress.com?subject=Bost%20Endorsed%20by%20United%20Mine%20Workers\">evan@bostforcongress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphysboro, IL \u2013 Congressman Mike Bost announced his Job Creator Coalition at a breakfast on Monday, May 16th, in O\u2019Fallon.\u00a0 This coalition, a group of business owners formed in support of the campaign, comprises 30 small business owners across the 12th district. You can see this list of names here. \u201cAs a former small business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}