{"id":141972,"date":"2018-09-27T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=141972"},"modified":"2018-09-27T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:17:29","slug":"uconn-host-gubernatorial-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/09\/uconn-host-gubernatorial-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Hosts Gubernatorial Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut&#8217;s three gubernatorial candidates took to the stage at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic candidate Ned Lamont, Republican candidate Bob Stefanowski, and Independent candidate Oz Griebel discussed campaign issues such as taxes, tolls, and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty, and staff were among those in the audience at the WFSB Channel 3 televised debate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141978\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-141978 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gov180926b410-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the gubernatorial debate at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo))\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gov180926b410-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gov180926b410-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gov180926b410-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gov180926b410-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gov180926b410-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/427;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the gubernatorial debate at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 26. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut&#8217;s three gubernatorial candidates took to the stage at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":141975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1715,2225,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1931],"class_list":["post-141972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-impact","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 11:59:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141972"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142003,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141972\/revisions\/142003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/141975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141972"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=141972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=141972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}