{"id":181524,"date":"2016-05-30T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/30\/the-worst-democrat-in-congress-just-did-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T01:44:00","slug":"the-worst-democrat-in-congress-just-did-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/30\/the-worst-democrat-in-congress-just-did-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Democrat in Congress Just Did a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Lipinsky is by most measures the worst Democrat in Congress, a light weight who inherited the seat from his father, and has used it to oppose abortion, support anti-gay bigots, oppose healthcare reform, and sh%$ting on immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>He is a complete clusterf%$# as a Democrat, and this is the party that not long ago had Steve Israel heading the DCCC.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, his declaration that, in the event of a contested convention, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigbluevision.com\/2016\/04\/20\/illinois-superdelegate-says-hed-back-sanders-contested-convention\/\">he will vote for Bernie Sanders because that is how is district voted<\/a>, is a righteous move:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">If there\u2019s a contested Democratic convention this summer, Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski says he\u2019ll be voting for Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Lipinski, who\u2019ll be a superdelegate at the convention, says he\u2019d support Sanders because the Vermont senator beat Hillary Clinton in Lipinski\u2019s district.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAs a Democratic member of Congress, I have a vote at the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate. Before the Illinois primary I told Democrats in the 3rd District that I decided that I would pledge my vote to whichever candidate won the district,\u201d Lipinski said Tuesday in a statement. \u201cWhen the votes were counted, Sen. Bernie Sanders received 54 percent and Secretary Hillary Clinton received 45 percent in my district. Therefore, if there is a contested vote at the Democratic National Convention in July, I will vote for Sen. Sanders.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Props, but I will still support whoever runs against him in the primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Lipinsky is by most measures the worst Democrat in Congress, a light weight who inherited the seat from his father, and has used it to oppose abortion, support anti-gay bigots, oppose healthcare reform, and sh%$ting on immigrants. He is a complete clusterf%$# as a Democrat, and this is the party that not long ago &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181524"}],"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=181524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}