{"id":184325,"date":"2012-06-01T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/01\/some-good-news-from-the-texas-primary\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:37:00","slug":"some-good-news-from-the-texas-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/01\/some-good-news-from-the-texas-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News From the Texas Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silvestres Reyes was defeated in the Tuesday primary by El Paso City Councelman Beta O\u2019Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>The district is overhwelmingly Democratic, so it means that O&#8217;Rourke is pretty much a shoe in for the general.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this good news? Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2012\/05\/drug-warrior-and-pro-drone-congressman-silvestres-reyes-goes-down-hard.html\">Reyes was aggressively pro-drug war and pro drone, to the point of lobbying for drone stikes in Mexico, and O&#8217;Rourke supports Marijuana legalization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big deal, and it shows that, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2012\/05\/30\/marijuana-law-reform-supporter-dethrones-eight-term-incumbent-in-el-paso-primary\/\">NORML blog notes<\/a>, the war on drugs is no longer the winning issue that it used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silvestres Reyes was defeated in the Tuesday primary by El Paso City Councelman Beta O\u2019Rourke. The district is overhwelmingly Democratic, so it means that O&#8217;Rourke is pretty much a shoe in for the general. Why is this good news? Because Reyes was aggressively pro-drug war and pro drone, to the point of lobbying for drone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1013,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-drugs","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184325"}],"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=184325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}