{"id":191675,"date":"2009-07-09T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/09\/pig-fight\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:09:00","slug":"pig-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/09\/pig-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Fight!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the primary campaign between Arlen Spector and Joe Sestak is heating up, with <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/07\/specter-sestak-a-hypocrite-for-calling-himself-the-true-democrat-in-pa-senate-race.php\">Specter calling Sestak a hypocrite for not registering as a Democrat until a few years back<\/a>, and Sestak has responded that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/07\/sestak-fires-back-at-specter-while-i-was-voting-for-democrats-specter-was-voting-for-dole-bush-and-m.php\">he felt that it was his obligation as a military officer not to declare party affiliation until he left the service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how the person making the initial attack about insufficient party loyalty is Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat Specter, I&#8217;m inclined to go with Joe Sestak.<\/p>\n<p>So it would seem are a fair number of campaign donors, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/local\/20090713_Sestak_raised__1_million-plus_in_the_spring.html\">Sestak raised over a million dollars in this Spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, even if Specter were a better Senator than Sestak, and there are some issues where Spector is closer to me than he is to Sestak, Specter being challenged by Sestak is a better Senator than just Specter.<\/p>\n<p>We are not hearing any more of the crap about how he won&#8217;t toe any party line, and he&#8217;s fallen into line on labor, healthcare, and climate change legislation as a result of this challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the primary campaign between Arlen Spector and Joe Sestak is heating up, with Specter calling Sestak a hypocrite for not registering as a Democrat until a few years back, and Sestak has responded that he felt that it was his obligation as a military officer not to declare party affiliation until he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191675"}],"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=191675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}