{"id":178472,"date":"2018-11-18T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/18\/senator-bat-boy\/"},"modified":"2018-11-18T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T00:12:00","slug":"senator-bat-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/18\/senator-bat-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bat Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hQSpPSl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hQSpPSl.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/18\/us\/florida-recount-senate-rick-scott-bill-nelson.html\">next Senator from the state of Florida will be Rick Scott<\/a>, AKA &#8220;Governor Bat Boy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This sucks like 1000 Hoovers all going at once:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gov. Rick Scott became Florida\u2019s next senator on Sunday, a feat delayed by a grueling 12-day recount that arrived at the same inexorable truth that emerged deep into election night: Mr. Scott, a Republican who entered the public arena only eight years ago, has become a formidable political force.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After all the vote-tallying, accusation-trading and lawsuit-filing, Mr. Scott\u2019s Democratic opponent, Senator Bill Nelson, accepted defeat once a manual recount showed him still trailing, by 10,033 votes out of more than 8.1 million cast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Nelson\u2019s concession brought Florida\u2019s turbulent midterm election to its long-awaited close after a statewide recount did nothing to alter the race\u2019s outcome, other than narrow the margin between candidates in the profoundly divided state.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, after buying himself the Governorship with money he got scamming Medicare, he has now bought himself a Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;F%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Senator from the state of Florida will be Rick Scott, AKA &#8220;Governor Bat Boy&#8221;. This sucks like 1000 Hoovers all going at once: Gov. Rick Scott became Florida\u2019s next senator on Sunday, a feat delayed by a grueling 12-day recount that arrived at the same inexorable truth that emerged deep into election night: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,447,375,364,374],"class_list":["post-178472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-evil","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}