{"id":185057,"date":"2011-10-23T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/23\/rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T23:10:00","slug":"rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/23\/rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s Michelle Bachmann&#8217;s entire campaign in New Hampshire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/21\/us-usa-campaign-bachmann-idUSTRE79K4EY20111021\">just quit on her<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Staff members in New Hampshire for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann have resigned en masse, a Republican familiar with the situation said on Friday, in a fresh blow to her 2012 hopes.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican had few details, but news reports in New Hampshire said the resignations included her New Hampshire campaign manager, Jeff Chidester.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmann, campaigning in Iowa, sowed some confusion by saying she was unaware of the resignations.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester&#8217;s Union Leader newspaper said Chidester, a conservative activist and radio talk show host, left due to frustration with Bachmann&#8217;s national campaign, not with the candidate herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bachmann has a <b>long<\/b> history of churning through staff the way that Rush Limbaugh churns through Oxycontin.<\/p>\n<p>This is a not unexpected development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s Michelle Bachmann&#8217;s entire campaign in New Hampshire just quit on her: Staff members in New Hampshire for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann have resigned en masse, a Republican familiar with the situation said on Friday, in a fresh blow to her 2012 hopes. The Republican had few details, but news reports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185057"}],"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=185057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}