{"id":182501,"date":"2015-08-27T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/27\/the-best-case-of-our-work-is-done-here-this-presidential-campaign\/"},"modified":"2015-08-27T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:46:00","slug":"the-best-case-of-our-work-is-done-here-this-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/27\/the-best-case-of-our-work-is-done-here-this-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Case of, &#8220;Our Work is Done Here,&#8221; this Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/212uv.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/212uv.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;Stop Chris Christie&#8221; PAC <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/stop-chris-christie-pac-shuts-down\">has closed its doors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that they believe that, through the efforts of Chris Christie, they have been rendered redundant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A super PAC opposing Chris Christie&#8217;s (R) presidential bid said Tuesday that it planned to shut down, citing the New Jersey governor&#8217;s poor performance in the polls.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The treasurer of the Stop Chris Christie PAC, Thomas Bjorkland, made the announcement in response to a letter from the Federal Election Commission that warned the super PAC must change its name or else clarify the nature of the committee. Bjorkland wrote in a letter to the FEC that &#8220;based on recent polling and the miserable showing of the candidate in question,&#8221; the committee decided to instead wind down its operations.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s some sweet Schadenfreude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Stop Chris Christie&#8221; PAC has closed its doors. It appears that they believe that, through the efforts of Chris Christie, they have been rendered redundant: A super PAC opposing Chris Christie&#8217;s (R) presidential bid said Tuesday that it planned to shut down, citing the New Jersey governor&#8217;s poor performance in the polls.The treasurer of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182501"}],"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=182501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}