{"id":190862,"date":"2009-10-19T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/19\/new-york-state-senator-hiram-monserrate-convicted-on-misdemeanor\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T01:22:00","slug":"new-york-state-senator-hiram-monserrate-convicted-on-misdemeanor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/19\/new-york-state-senator-hiram-monserrate-convicted-on-misdemeanor\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate Convicted on Misdemeanor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was acquitted of slashing his girl-friend&#8217;s face, not surprising, given that she was testifying on his behalf, but, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/17\/nyregion\/17hiram.html\">convicted of misdemeanor assault for dragging her through the lobby of his apartment building<\/a>, which was caught on the building&#8217;s security cam.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that some members of the State Senate, mostly Democrats, are calling for his ouster, while the Republicans are largely silent on this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising, as Republicans would still be down by one vote 31-30 if Monserrate were to leave, and so, unlike the national Republicans, they are keeping their mouths shut, knowing that this is a lose-lose for the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was acquitted of slashing his girl-friend&#8217;s face, not surprising, given that she was testifying on his behalf, but, &#8220;convicted of misdemeanor assault for dragging her through the lobby of his apartment building, which was caught on the building&#8217;s security cam. It should be noted that some members of the State Senate, mostly Democrats, are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190862"}],"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=190862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}