{"id":3425,"date":"2026-04-25T22:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:43:59","slug":"political-violence-must-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/?p=3425","title":{"rendered":"Political Violence Must End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kalamazoo County, MI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Just moments ago, there was a shooting at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; The President and First Lady were rushed off stage by Secret Service, and they are now safe back at the White House.&nbsp; The gunman is reportedly in custody.&nbsp; A law enforcement officer was injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I condemn this act of violence.&nbsp; This is another attack on the President and our Democracy. The President survived the attack on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.&nbsp; But Charlie Kirk was assassinated because of his faith and defense of this country.&nbsp; The vitriol and hateful rhetoric from the left has even been directed at the Kalamazoo Republican Party Office and myself.&nbsp; &nbsp;This must end now.&nbsp; &nbsp;Political differences should never lead to violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly Sackett, Chairwoman, KGOP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo County, MI: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Just moments ago, there was a shooting at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; The President and First Lady were rushed off stage by Secret Service, and they are now safe back at the White House.&nbsp; The gunman is reportedly in custody.&nbsp; A law enforcement officer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}