{"id":190719,"date":"2009-10-31T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/election-news\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T20:57:00","slug":"election-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/election-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Election News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In California, it looks like it will be Jerry Brown running as the Dem for Governor, because  <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/10\/gavin-newsom-quits-race-for-governor.html\">Gavin Newsome has quit the race<\/a>, because of weak support and poor fund-raising.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> odd special election for New York&#8217;s 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Congressional district, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20091031\/NEWS09\/910319997\">has suspended her campaign<\/a>, after coming up short on money and placing 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in recent polls.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were about 35% for Doug Hoffman, the Club for Growth approved Neanderthal, 35% for Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate about whom I know nothing, and about 25% for Scozzafava.<\/p>\n<p>Her name will remain on the ballot, which is, I think a message to Hoffman that he should go Cheney himself, but I&#8217;m an engineer, not a psychologist, dammit!<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I think that this puts Hoffman the live dead girl\/live boy<sup>\u2020<\/sup> favorite in the overwhelmingly Republican district now, though I think that there are a number of people who will vote for Scozzafava anyway, because they do not want to vote for Hoffman, who is a carpetbagger with absolutely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20091029\/OPINION01\/310299964\/-1\/OPINION\">no interest in the real issues of the district<\/a>, but cannot bring themselves to pull the &#8220;D&#8221; lever.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">LOVE IT<\/span> when I get to go all Doctor McCoy!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Edwin Edwards, when discovering that he would be facing David Duke in the Louisiana governor&#8217;s race, said that the the only way that he would lose were if he were, &#8220;caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California, it looks like it will be Jerry Brown running as the Dem for Governor, because Gavin Newsome has quit the race, because of weak support and poor fund-raising. Additionally, in the very odd special election for New York&#8217;s 23rd Congressional district, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign, after coming up short on &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-190719","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\/190719"}],"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=190719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}