{"id":179551,"date":"2018-01-04T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/04\/crap-4\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T00:54:00","slug":"crap-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/04\/crap-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/republican-yancey-picked-in-random-lottery-declared-winner-of-pivotal-va-house-race\/2018\/01\/04\/9c9caa5a-f0a1-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html\">won the random drawing in the Virginia House race<\/a>, so &#8216;Phants continue their control of that body:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy bowl, pulled out a name and named Republican David E. Yan\u00adcey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party controls the chamber.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Triumphant Republicans declared that they would be in charge when the legislature reconvenes Wednesday. But Democrat Shelly Simonds did not concede, and she could request a second recount.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">With that race in limbo and Democrats suing over another disputed Republican win, the GOP\u2019s hold on a chamber it has dominated since 2000 remains tenuous. In a hearing Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Democrats will ask a judge to order a new election for a Fredericksburg-area House seat because nearly 150 voters were given the wrong ballots.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Thursday\u2019s dramatic and rare election lottery, carried live on CNN, drew national attention as an odd way to decide a highly consequential contest. Simonds and a crowd of about 100 state officials, journalists and politicos crowded into the West Reading Room of the Patrick Henry Building for the event. Yancey was not present, although he sent a representative.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, no Medicaid expansion then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican won the random drawing in the Virginia House race, so &#8216;Phants continue their control of that body: A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy bowl, pulled out a name and named Republican David E. Yan\u00adcey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party controls the chamber.Triumphant &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":[375,374,421],"class_list":["post-179551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179551"}],"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=179551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}