{"id":178643,"date":"2018-10-04T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/04\/yes-supporting-the-corrupt-son-of-a-bitch-is-working-out-well\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T00:23:00","slug":"yes-supporting-the-corrupt-son-of-a-bitch-is-working-out-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/04\/yes-supporting-the-corrupt-son-of-a-bitch-is-working-out-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Supporting the Corrupt Son of a Bitch is Working Out Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OIt looks likely that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-01\/menendez-in-dead-heat-with-hugin-in-n-j-senate-race-poll-finds\">Democrat Bob Menendez is in a tight race with Republican Bob Hugin for his New Jersey US Senate Seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that New Jersey has not voted for a Republican Presidential Candidate since 1988, and hasn&#8217;t elected a Republican Senator since 1978.  (There have been some &#8216;Phant appointments)<\/p>\n<p>But Hugins is in the margin of error, because he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/10\/4\/17928914\/bob-menendez-new-jersey-senate\">tried for corruption and the jury hung<\/a>, and because the Supreme Court made it next to impossible to prosecute corrupt politicians with the Bob &#8220;Governor Ultrasound&#8221; McDonnell decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are not running against Wall Street, because they want the campaign cash, they are in hock up to their eyeballs to big pharma, (Jim Manchin&#8217;s kid is behind price gouging on the Epi-Pen), and now they are putting forward corrupt candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This is the stupidest Democratic Party campaign strategy since \u2026\u2026\u2026  Well, 2016, but you get my point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OIt looks likely that Democrat Bob Menendez is in a tight race with Republican Bob Hugin for his New Jersey US Senate Seat. Note that New Jersey has not voted for a Republican Presidential Candidate since 1988, and hasn&#8217;t elected a Republican Senator since 1978. (There have been some &#8216;Phant appointments) But Hugins is in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-178643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178643"}],"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=178643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}