{"id":182867,"date":"2015-05-18T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/18\/governor-ratf-will-veto-this-of-course\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T01:19:00","slug":"governor-ratf-will-veto-this-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/18\/governor-ratf-will-veto-this-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ratf%$# Will Veto This, of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill has passed the Maryland legislature which would <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2015\/05\/13\/3657757\/maryland-governor-soon-restore-voting-rights-40000-ex-offenders\/\">grant ex-offenders the right to vote while on parole of probation<\/a>.&nbsp; It now goes to the desk of the newly elected Republican Governor Larry Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, a restriction on voting that applies largely to communities of color that vote for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Any guess as to what hizzonner will do?&nbsp; He&#8217;s already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/bs-ed-hogan-schools-20150517-story.html\">trying to defund education in Baltimore City and Prince Georges County<\/a>, so I don&#8217;t think that he is counting on getting much in the way of the Black vote the next time around.<\/p>\n<p>He has until May 30 to veto the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill has passed the Maryland legislature which would grant ex-offenders the right to vote while on parole of probation.&nbsp; It now goes to the desk of the newly elected Republican Governor Larry Hogan. Gee, a restriction on voting that applies largely to communities of color that vote for Democrats. Any guess as to what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1020,1071,978,1084],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-legislation","category-maryland","category-politics","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182867"}],"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=182867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}