{"id":189246,"date":"2010-04-30T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/30\/charlie-crist-announces-independent-run-for-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:12:00","slug":"charlie-crist-announces-independent-run-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/30\/charlie-crist-announces-independent-run-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crist Announces Independent Run for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0410\/36571.html\">left the Republican Party to run for the Senate as an independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that he gives is that the, &#8220;political system [is] broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think that he would have gotten a few more votes out of telling the truth, which is that, &#8220;The nutjobs in the Florida Republican party are running the asylum now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In related news, John Cornyn, head of the RSCC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/blaise-zerega\/cornyn-to-crist-i-want-my_b_557199.html\">wants his money back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Crist has any brains, he will tell him, and anyone else, to go pound sand, that they contributed to a conservative candidate for Senate, and he is still that.<\/p>\n<p>He could play it as Reagan did with his, &#8220;I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Breen.,&#8221; moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s left the Republican Party to run for the Senate as an independent. The reason that he gives is that the, &#8220;political system [is] broken.&#8221; I think that he would have gotten a few more votes out of telling the truth, which is that, &#8220;The nutjobs in the Florida Republican party are running the asylum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189246"}],"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=189246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}