{"id":40507,"date":"2015-02-01T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T05:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40507"},"modified":"2015-02-01T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T04:08:14","slug":"b-c-conservative-mp-randy-kamp-announces-he-will-not-seek-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/01\/b-c-conservative-mp-randy-kamp-announces-he-will-not-seek-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Conservative MP Randy Kamp announces he will not seek re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40508\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cp.png\" alt=\"Cp\" width=\"649\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cp.png 649w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cp-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014A British Columbia Conservative MP has decided not to seek re-election, saying it is time for him to move on to a new chapter of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Kamp has served the riding of Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission since 2004, and made the announcement Saturday at a local meeting of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Kamp issued a statement that says he informed Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week that he will not run again, after \u201cconsiderable soul-searching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says about four years ago his hearing suddenly began to decline, to the point where he has profound loss in his left ear and severe loss in his right.<\/p>\n<p>Kamp says his hearing loss was not the main factor in his decision, but it has made his job more difficult despite technology that has helped him cope.<\/p>\n<p>He says in recent months he has felt a growing sense that it was time to move on after being involved with federal politics for 18 years, but he doesn\u2019t know what lies ahead yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014A British Columbia Conservative MP has decided not to seek re-election, saying it is time for him to move on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}