{"id":188406,"date":"2010-10-04T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/04\/i-believe-that-the-term-here-is-vigorish\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T23:53:00","slug":"i-believe-that-the-term-here-is-vigorish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/04\/i-believe-that-the-term-here-is-vigorish\/","title":{"rendered":"I Believe That the Term Here is &#8220;Vigorish&#8221;*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 204px; padding: 5px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img188.imageshack.us\/img188\/2969\/minilarson037790049.jpg\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bummer of a birth mark, Sharron Angle<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle had a meeting with the 3<sup>rs<\/sup> party Scott Ashjian in an attempt to get him out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/blogs\/ralstons-flash\/2010\/oct\/03\/angle-im-not-sure-i-can-win-if-ashjians-natl-goper\/\">Mr. Ashjians recorded the conversation<\/a>, and she was offering a piece of the action:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Says the grass roots movement \u201cgives me juice. That\u2019s really all I can offer to you (Ashjian) is whatever juice I have, you have as well\u2026You want to see DeMint, I have juice with him\u2026.I go to Washington, DC and want to see Jim DeMint, he\u2019s right there for me. I want to see Tom Coburn, he\u2019s right there for me. I want to see Mitch McConnell, he\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She goes on to say that Republicans are corrupt, and that she will lose if the Teabagger Ashjian stays in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Let me make this clear:  I do not support the surreptitious taping, and if this happened in a state where it&#8217;s illegal, like Maryland, I would support prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, these revelations could not happen to a more deserving character.<\/p>\n<p>Pass the popcorn.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I believe that the &#8220;juice&#8221; in the quote is a reference to transactional profits similar to those of a bookie, hence &#8220;vigorish&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer of a birth mark, Sharron Angle Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle had a meeting with the 3rs party Scott Ashjian in an attempt to get him out of the race. Unfortunately for her Mr. Ashjians recorded the conversation, and she was offering a piece of the action: Says the grass roots movement \u201cgives &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188406"}],"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=188406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}