{"id":189110,"date":"2010-05-21T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/21\/why-i-read-joe-steffens-blog\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:37:00","slug":"why-i-read-joe-steffens-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/21\/why-i-read-joe-steffens-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Read Joe Steffen’s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know nothing of Maryland Politics, you don’t know who Joe Steffen is.<\/p>\n

He’s a Republican political operative, formerly Bob Ehrlich’s aide, who is currently on the outs with the party, who is also known by his nickname, the “Prince of Darkness.”<\/p>\n

I think of him as Lee Atwater writ on a state wide basis.<\/p>\n

That being said, he tends to be rather more chatty about the comings and goings of Republican party politics in the state (In fact, it was imprudent postings on a BBS that were traced back to him which got him fired by “Bad Hair Bob” some years back), and so, despite my profound disagreements with him on issues of policy, I read his blog and I hear a lot of good inside baseball.<\/p>\n

Case in point, he outs Republican party stalwart David Nawrocki for sending campaign emails from his work account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seems like a minor thing, until you realize that Nawrocki works for the Social Security Administration, which makes his email a criminal violation of the Hatch act<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Oopsie.<\/p>\n

This is why I blogroll people and subscribe to their RSS feeds. It’s not because I agree with them, but because they can teach me things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you know nothing of Maryland Politics, you don’t know who Joe Steffen is. He’s a Republican political operative, formerly Bob Ehrlich’s aide, who is currently on the outs with the party, who is also known by his nickname, the “Prince of Darkness.” I think of him as Lee Atwater writ on a state wide …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1118,978,1019,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-meta","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189110"}],"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=189110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}