{"id":262,"date":"2008-04-09T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/09\/jackie-speier-elected-to-serveremainder-of-lantos-term\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:38:37","slug":"jackie-speier-elected-to-serveremainder-of-lantos-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/262\/jackie-speier-elected-to-serveremainder-of-lantos-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Speier elected to serve<br>remainder of Lantos&#8217; term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/speier_fundraiser_060203\/mw2w4766_std.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJackie Speier<br \/>\n<strong>File photo by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laura Dudnich and Caitlin Cassady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 9, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Former democratic state Sen. Jackie Speier comfortably won the special election Tuesday as representative in the 12th Congressional District and will serve the remainder of the late Tom Lantos&#8217; term through December.<\/p>\n<p>Speier received 77.9 percent of the votes in San Francisco and San Mateo counties &#8211; well over the number of votes needed. If any of the five candidates in Tuesday&#8217;s election did not receive more than 50 percent of the votes, a general election would have taken place in June for the term that ends in January 2009.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Lantos was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in late December, and had announced he would not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives, but had committed to serving the rest of his 14th term through December.<\/p>\n<p>Lantos endorsed Speier for the next congressional term before he died on Feb. 11 at the age of 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Speier File photo by Luke Thomas By Laura Dudnich and Caitlin Cassady April 9, 2008 Former democratic state Sen. 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