{"id":178943,"date":"2018-07-12T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/12\/totally-unsurprised\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T00:05:00","slug":"totally-unsurprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/12\/totally-unsurprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Unsurprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repjoecrowley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@repjoecrowley<\/a> stated on live TV that he would absolutely support my candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he\u2019s stood me up for all 3 scheduled concession calls.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s mounting a 3rd party challenge against me and the Democratic Party- and against the will of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYWFP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYWFP<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xvb6Jk8N8q\">https:\/\/t.co\/Xvb6Jk8N8q<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ocasio2018\/status\/1017394155268575232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>R<\/i><\/div>\n<p>What a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>After invoking Bruce Springsteen saying that he would support her in the general election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/11\/nyregion\/ocasio-cortez-primary-third-parties.html\">Joe Crowley will be on the ballot as a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party candidate in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional district<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even in Ms. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s district, the Working Families Party line was won by Mr. Crowley, who had secured that party\u2019s endorsement. Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party, said he immediately reached out to Mr. Crowley\u2019s campaign to request that he vacate the line.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">To Mr. Lipton\u2019s chagrin, his campaign declined; Mr. Crowley will remain on the ballot in November. \u201cYou\u2019d think that given the moment we\u2019re in,\u201d said Mr. Lipton, \u201cthat Democratic leaders would want to help progressive forces to unite.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that the demands for unity only apply to the real Democrats, not the corporate Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Also:&nbsp; New York has truly f%$#ed up election laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.@repjoecrowley stated on live TV that he would absolutely support my candidacy. Instead, he\u2019s stood me up for all 3 scheduled concession calls. Now, he\u2019s mounting a 3rd party challenge against me and the Democratic Party- and against the will of @NYWFP.https:\/\/t.co\/Xvb6Jk8N8q \u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 12, 2018 R What a surprise. After invoking &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":[368,375,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-178943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178943"}],"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=178943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}