{"id":11914,"date":"2006-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/11\/18\/defeated-senator-tells-hindu-opponent-to-know-jesus\/"},"modified":"2006-11-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:00:00","slug":"defeated-senator-tells-hindu-opponent-to-know-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/11\/18\/defeated-senator-tells-hindu-opponent-to-know-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeated Senator Tells Hindu Opponent to &#8216;Know Jesus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/wcco.com\/local\/local_story_320195110.html\">wcco.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MINESSOTA, November 16 (WCCO) &#8212; Sen. Satveer Chaudhary, a practicing Hindu, was re-elected in District 50 last week on the Democratic ticket, netting 63 percent of the vote. But rather than placing a call to concede the race, his Republican opponent Rae Hart Anderson instead offered him an e-mail concession that he said read like an attempt to convert his religious beliefs. In her e-mail, Anderson congratulated the senator first, but then went on to add, &#8220;It is my sincere wish that you&#8217;ll get to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.&#8221; &#8220;When I read it I just shook my head,&#8221; said Chaudhary. &#8220;This just sums up the type of campaign voters were rejecting.&#8221; Later in the afternoon, Anderson&#8217;s former campaign manager, Barbara Black, told us Anderson wrote the e-mail because &#8220;Chaudhary is not Christian, and he needs to find his soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite her e-mail, the Senator said he has faith in his constituents, and the tenor of Anderson&#8217;s e-mail only confirms his belief in their will. &#8220;I know I&#8217;m going to be attacked. If that&#8217;s all they got, my ethnicity, I must be doing OK for the voters,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wcco.com MINESSOTA, November 16 (WCCO) &#8212; Sen. Satveer Chaudhary, a practicing Hindu, was re-elected in District 50 last week on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}