{"id":189212,"date":"2010-05-05T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/05\/dave-obey-will-retire\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:32:00","slug":"dave-obey-will-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/05\/dave-obey-will-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Obey Will Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful, and senior, head of the House Appropriations Committee has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/05\/reports-dave-obey-to-retire.php?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">announced that he will not stand for reelection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wisconsin%27s_7th_congressional_district\">Wisconsin&#8217;s 7<sup>th<\/sup> district has a D +3 PVI<\/a>, so I think that its likely that the seat will remain in Democratic hands, but given the late date of this decision, it&#8217;s likely that the party leaders in Madison, and the DCCC, and , of course, Rahm, will do their best to ensure that a squish will run.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the deaths of Charlie Wilson and John Murtha led him to make this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful, and senior, head of the House Appropriations Committee has announced that he will not stand for reelection. Wisconsin&#8217;s 7th district has a D +3 PVI, so I think that its likely that the seat will remain in Democratic hands, but given the late date of this decision, it&#8217;s likely that the party leaders &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189212"}],"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=189212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}