{"id":181991,"date":"2016-01-21T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/21\/governor-ratf-just-got-served\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:19:00","slug":"governor-ratf-just-got-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/21\/governor-ratf-just-got-served\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ratf%$# Just Got Served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, he Maryland legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/maryland-house-overrides-three-of-gov-hogans-vetoes\/2016\/01\/20\/1e88d704-bf77-11e5-9443-7074c3645405_story.html\">overrode 5 of Governor Hogan&#8217;s vetoes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Maryland General Assembly on Thursday overturned five of Gov. Larry Hogan\u2019s 2015 vetoes, turning the bills into law and proving that the Democratic-controlled legislature can enforce its will despite opposition from a popular Republican chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>The resurrected measures dealt with public marijuana smoking and pot paraphernalia; police seizures of criminal assets; taxation of online hotel-booking services; and funding to renovate an arts center in Annapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Overturning a veto requires the approval of three-fifths of the 141-member House of Delegates and the 47-member Senate. Both chambers completed the process for the five measures Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Senate postponed action on Hogan\u2019s veto of a bill that would grant voting rights to felons who are on parole or probation, pushing the vote to Feb. 5 so that a vacant seat can be filled.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said this week that the vote of the new senator could be critical. The voting-rights bill passed the Senate last year with 29 votes, exactly the number needed to override Hogan\u2019s veto.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really hope that they expand voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>Removing voting rights from felons is an evil relic of Jim Crow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, he Maryland legislature overrode 5 of Governor Hogan&#8217;s vetoes: The Maryland General Assembly on Thursday overturned five of Gov. Larry Hogan\u2019s 2015 vetoes, turning the bills into law and proving that the Democratic-controlled legislature can enforce its will despite opposition from a popular Republican chief executive. The resurrected measures dealt with public marijuana smoking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,1071,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-maryland","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181991"}],"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=181991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}