{"id":11190,"date":"2010-03-22T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:31:44","slug":"jet-alum-david-boling-to-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/22\/jet-alum-david-boling-to-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum David Boling to run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11191\" title=\"boling_bio\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/boling_bio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Thanks to JET alum <strong>Harlan Rosacker<\/strong> of Washington, D.C. for passing along this information:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JET alum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David  Boling<\/strong><\/a> has announced his candidacy for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/about-the-district.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup> Congressional seat in Arkansas<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see David&#8217;s website at:\u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bolingforcongress.com<\/a> and you can follow his blog at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.bolingforcongress.com\/blog.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Harland adds:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have known David since the mid-1990s.\u00a0 Our association grew as a result our having lived in Japan ourselves from 1969  to 1976.\u00a0 \u00a0Our son Andrew (born in Tokyo) was a JET in Kanagawa-ken from 1996 to 1998.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  size-full wp-image-11192\" title=\"bolingdavid\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bolingdavid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bolingdavid.jpg 613w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bolingdavid-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Here are a few JET-relevant snippets from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/about-david.html\" target=\"_blank\">David&#8217;s bio<\/a>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolingforcongress.com\/about-david.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Boling<\/a><\/strong>, 45, is a fourth-generation Arkansan. He is a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice; a one-time lawyer at the Mitchell Williams law firm in Little Rock; and, until last month, the Chief of Staff to Congressman Vic Snyder (D, AR-2).<\/li>\n<li>Boling is married to former <strong>Fuji Television reporter Mine Sasaguri<\/strong>; he and his wife are the parents of two children, Christopher (7) and Ellen (5).<\/li>\n<li>Fulfilling a desire to learn more about the Japanese educational system, David took a one-year break from law school, 1988-1989, to teach English to students in <strong>Fujishiro<\/strong>. He was later selected for a competitive Rotary scholarship which he used to master the 1800 character Japanese language, visit <strong>Pine Bluff\u2019s Sister City, Iwai<\/strong> and, most importantly, gain an understanding of the Japanese legal system and trade between Japan and the United States \u2013 specifically, about <strong>trade between Japan and Arkansas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>David passed the <strong>Arkansas Bar Exam<\/strong> in 1993 and then completed a Masters in Law (LL.M) at <strong>Columbia University School of Law<\/strong> in 1994, where he focused on international and <strong>Japanese law<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In 1995, David joined the <strong>US Department of Justice Antitrust Division<\/strong> as a lawyer. He worked there for 10 years, spanning both the <strong>Clinton and Bush Administrations<\/strong>. As they increasingly litigated cases against Japanese firms, David\u2019s background was a strong asset to the Justice Department, but he also worked to investigate alleged illegal monopoly behavior in the concert ticketing business and on criminal investigations to crack down on international price-fixing cartels, which steal from American consumers. He helped prosecute a Japanese executive and Japanese company for obstruction of justice in two separate antitrust investigations. In 1999, Janet Reno signed an international antitrust agreement between Japan and the US to further open the Japanese market and improve antitrust enforcement that Boling helped to negotiate.<\/li>\n<li>Boling was selected for a <strong>Mike Mansfield Fellowship<\/strong> at Justice, during  which he worked in the <strong>Japanese Justice Ministry<\/strong> and other government  agencies, deepening his understanding of their legal system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>David-san, <em>ganbatte kudasai<\/em>!<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JET alum Harlan Rosacker of Washington, D.C. for passing along this information: JET alum David Boling has announced his candidacy for the 2nd Congressional seat in Arkansas.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see David&#8217;s website at:\u00a0 www.bolingforcongress.com and you can follow his blog at:\u00a0 www.bolingforcongress.com\/blog.html. Harland adds: &#8220;We have known David since the mid-1990s.\u00a0 Our association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-celebrity","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2Uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}