{"id":182142,"date":"2015-12-09T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/09\/politics-got-a-bit-less-entertaining\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:03:00","slug":"politics-got-a-bit-less-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/09\/politics-got-a-bit-less-entertaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Got a Bit Less Entertaining\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy &#8220;The Rent Is Too Damn High&#8221; McMillan has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/10\/nyregion\/jimmy-mcmillan-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-is-retiring-from-politics.html\">announced that he is retiring from politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jimmy McMillan, the whiskered political showman who became a viral Internet star when he ran for governor of New York in 2010 as a candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, has announced his retirement from the political arena, citing a lack of public support for his agenda.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a news release infused with misspellings and other errors that was dated Tuesday, Mr. McMillan said voters had been \u201ctotally brainwashed\u201d and criticized Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, for not securing \u201ca rent reduction for the people in the cities of Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cRent is too damn high is an international crisis,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere are many questions the people should ask themselves. I which them the best \u2014 I\u2019m out.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The news release said the Rent Is Too Damn High Party was \u201cfor sale, trademark and all,\u201d and listed a Manhattan lawyer, Vincent Imbesi, as a point of contact.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He will be missed from the political scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy &#8220;The Rent Is Too Damn High&#8221; McMillan has announced that he is retiring from politics: Jimmy McMillan, the whiskered political showman who became a viral Internet star when he ran for governor of New York in 2010 as a candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, has announced his retirement from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978,1088,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-real-estate","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182142"}],"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=182142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}