{"id":179518,"date":"2018-01-16T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/16\/this-years-maryland-senate-primary-should-be-fun\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:20:00","slug":"this-years-maryland-senate-primary-should-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/16\/this-years-maryland-senate-primary-should-be-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Maryland Senate Primary Should Be Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Manning is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/chelsea-manning-files-to-run-for-us-senate-in-maryland\/2018\/01\/13\/6439f0d0-f88c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html\">running for the US Senate Seat currently held by Ben Cardin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Chelsea E. Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, is seeking to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Manning would be challenging Democrat Benjamin L. Cardin, who is in his second term in the Senate and is up for reelection in November. Cardin is Maryland\u2019s senior senator and is considered an overwhelming favorite to win a third term.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually considering voting for her, because it would be a personal f%$# you to the US state security apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Manning is running for the US Senate Seat currently held by Ben Cardin: Chelsea E. Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, is seeking to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings.Manning would be challenging Democrat Benjamin L. Cardin, who &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":[447,375,369,374,501,421],"class_list":["post-179518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-espionage","tag-politics","tag-secrecy","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179518"}],"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=179518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}