{"id":179509,"date":"2018-01-18T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/18\/more-of-this-5\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:54:00","slug":"more-of-this-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/18\/more-of-this-5\/","title":{"rendered":"More of This\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Luis Gutierrez <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/schakowsky-gutierrez-endorsing-lipinski-democratic-primary-rival-marie-newman\/\">have endorsed fellow Congressman Dan Lipinski&#8217;s primary opponent, Marie Newman, in the upcoming primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is really unprecedented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a rare break from the usual tradition of House incumbents either backing each other or staying neutral in a primary, Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Luis Gutierrez on Wednesday endorsed challenger Marie Newman over Rep. Dan Lipinski.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to endorse a challenger over a colleague in the House of Representatives,\u201d Gutierrez said at a press conference on Capitol Hill with Newman and Schakowsky.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cEspecially when that colleague is a member of your party. But I think this is a very special and at the same time a very dangerous time,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Said Schakowsky, \u201cthis is not personal,\u201d with the split, she said, \u201cbased on issues.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Lipinski told me when we talked after the press conference that working-class issues \u2014 not gay rights and abortion \u2014 are what the Democratic voters in his district care the most about.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The March 20 Illinois primary is one of the earliest in the nation and this intra-Democratic fight for the third congressional district seat will be a real time test of voter mood in this Trump era.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lipinski is a right wing nut job who is where he is because his dad bequeathed him his seat.<\/p>\n<p>Turf his ass out.<\/p>\n<p>Newman&#8217;s Act Blue fund raising page is <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/entity\/fundraisers\/49461\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Luis Gutierrez have endorsed fellow Congressman Dan Lipinski&#8217;s primary opponent, Marie Newman, in the upcoming primary. This is really unprecedented: In a rare break from the usual tradition of House incumbents either backing each other or staying neutral in a primary, Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Luis Gutierrez on &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":[447,375,374],"class_list":["post-179509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179509"}],"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=179509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}