{"id":187879,"date":"2011-02-09T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/09\/good-riddance-6\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:07:00","slug":"good-riddance-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/09\/good-riddance-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Jane Harman (CA-36) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-jane-harman-congress-20110207,0,2276609.story\">retiring to run the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that she realized, after Marcy Winograd lost in the primary with 41.2% of the vote, that with a Republican Congress, and the attendant loss of power (and pork for her district), she would be toast in either the primary or the general election.<\/p>\n<p>So, less than a month into her new term, she&#8217;s bailing for a cushy job working in Washington, DC, and saddling the taxpayers with the cost of running another (2 if there is a run off) elections.<\/p>\n<p>Stay classy, Blue Dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Jane Harman (CA-36) is retiring to run the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. My guess is that she realized, after Marcy Winograd lost in the primary with 41.2% of the vote, that with a Republican Congress, and the attendant loss of power (and pork for her district), she would be toast in either &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187879"}],"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=187879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}