{"id":179555,"date":"2018-01-03T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/03\/good-riddance-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T02:55:00","slug":"good-riddance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/03\/good-riddance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Koback weeps, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-voter-fraud-commission.html\">Donald Trump&#8217;s bogus vote fraud commission is no more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump on Wednesday abruptly shut down a White House commission he had charged with investigating voter fraud, ending a brief quest for evidence of election theft that generated lawsuits, outrage and some scholarly testimony, but no real evidence that American elections are at all corrupt.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Trump did not acknowledge the commission\u2019s inability to find evidence of fraud, but cast the closing as a result of continuing legal challenges.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cDespite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry,\u201d Mr. Trump said in a White House statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cRather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good thing, but not a perfect thing.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect thing would also involve having Kobach frog marched out of the White House in handcuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Koback weeps, because Donald Trump&#8217;s bogus vote fraud commission is no more: President Trump on Wednesday abruptly shut down a White House commission he had charged with investigating voter fraud, ending a brief quest for evidence of election theft that generated lawsuits, outrage and some scholarly testimony, but no real evidence that American elections &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":[413,364,374,639],"class_list":["post-179555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179555"}],"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=179555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}