{"id":12498,"date":"2012-10-29T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2012-10-29T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:38:05","slug":"congressman-mike-simpson-and-challenger-nicole-lefavour-square-off-in-boise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/29\/congressman-mike-simpson-and-challenger-nicole-lefavour-square-off-in-boise\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mike Simpson And Challenger Nicole LeFavour Square Off In Boise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Congressman <a title=\"What You Should Know About Rep. Mike Simpson\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/mike-simpson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Simpson<\/a> and Democratic state Senator <a title=\"What You Should Know About State Sen. Nicole LeFavour\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/nicole-lefavour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole LeFavour<\/a> debated on Idaho Public Television Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>LeFavour, an eight-year veteran of the Idaho Legislature is <a title=\"Idaho Democrat Nicole LeFavour Works Toward A Congressional Upset\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/23\/idaho-democrat-nicole-lefavour-works-toward-a-congressional-upset\/\" target=\"_blank\">trying to unseat<\/a> Mike Simpson, who has represented Idaho&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District since 1998.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s the hour-long debate:<br \/>\n<object width=\"610\" height=\"370\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/idahoptv.org\/lib\/ltvplayer\/playerLic_5.10.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;bandwidth=17406&amp;captions.file=%2Fcove%2Fingest%2FCC%2F2nd_cong_2012.srt&amp;captions.height=270&amp;captions.pluginmode=HYBRID&amp;captions.visible=true&amp;captions.width=480&amp;captions.x=0&amp;captions.y=0&amp;controlbar=over&amp;file=debates%2F2012%2Fgeneral%2F2nd_cong_2012_550K.mp4&amp;frontcolor=0x444444&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fidahoptv.org%2Fcove%2Flive%2Fimages%2F2nd_cong_2012_Mz.jpg&amp;plugins=viral-2h%2Chttp%3A%2F%2Flp.longtailvideo.com%2F5%2Fcaptions%2Fcaptions.swf&amp;skin=http%3A%2F%2Fidahoptv.org%2Flib%2Fltvplayer%2Fsnel_5.10.zip&amp;streamer=rtmp%3A%2F%2F164.165.67.41%2Fvod&amp;viral.callout=none&amp;viral.onpause=false&amp;viral.pluginmode=FLASH\" \/><embed width=\"610\" height=\"370\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/idahoptv.org\/lib\/ltvplayer\/playerLic_5.10.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"&amp;bandwidth=17406&amp;captions.file=%2Fcove%2Fingest%2FCC%2F2nd_cong_2012.srt&amp;captions.height=270&amp;captions.pluginmode=HYBRID&amp;captions.visible=true&amp;captions.width=480&amp;captions.x=0&amp;captions.y=0&amp;controlbar=over&amp;file=debates%2F2012%2Fgeneral%2F2nd_cong_2012_550K.mp4&amp;frontcolor=0x444444&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fidahoptv.org%2Fcove%2Flive%2Fimages%2F2nd_cong_2012_Mz.jpg&amp;plugins=viral-2h%2Chttp%3A%2F%2Flp.longtailvideo.com%2F5%2Fcaptions%2Fcaptions.swf&amp;skin=http%3A%2F%2Fidahoptv.org%2Flib%2Fltvplayer%2Fsnel_5.10.zip&amp;streamer=rtmp%3A%2F%2F164.165.67.41%2Fvod&amp;viral.callout=none&amp;viral.onpause=false&amp;viral.pluginmode=FLASH\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">Source: Idaho Public Television<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Congressman Mike Simpson and Democratic state Senator Nicole LeFavour debated on Idaho Public Television Sunday night. LeFavour, an eight-year veteran of the Idaho Legislature is trying to unseat Mike Simpson, who has represented Idaho&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District since 1998. In case you missed it, here&#8217;s the hour-long debate: Source: Idaho Public Television<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":12505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[138,89,185],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12504,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions\/12504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}