{"id":187598,"date":"2011-05-04T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/04\/it-looks-like-6-of-8-phant-senators-are-up-for-recall-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T00:20:00","slug":"it-looks-like-6-of-8-phant-senators-are-up-for-recall-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/04\/it-looks-like-6-of-8-phant-senators-are-up-for-recall-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like 6 of 8 &#8216;Phant Senators Are Up for Recall in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When one considers that there have been just 4 recall elections in Wisconsin history, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/121291404.html\">this is pretty impressive<\/a>, there are additionally 3 recall elections against Democratic state senators, but, as anyone who follows Maddow knows, the effort was significantly less grass roots and honest.&nbsp; (Signatures for shots of booze)<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there was a special election in a solidly Republican district for the State Assembly, and it <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/elections\/article_55027fda-76b9-11e0-81d0-001cc4c03286.html\">flipped to the Democrats for the first time in a rather long time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dems have to win 3 seats to flip the Senate, which is a non-trivial task, but I think that the voters of Wisconsin are feeling a sh%$load of buyers remorse right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one considers that there have been just 4 recall elections in Wisconsin history, this is pretty impressive, there are additionally 3 recall elections against Democratic state senators, but, as anyone who follows Maddow knows, the effort was significantly less grass roots and honest.&nbsp; (Signatures for shots of booze) Additionally, there was a special election &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187598"}],"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=187598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}