{"id":191676,"date":"2009-07-09T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/09\/ny-senate-kerfluffle-resolved\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:07:00","slug":"ny-senate-kerfluffle-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/09\/ny-senate-kerfluffle-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Senate Kerfluffle Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8230;..For a while, at least.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This may very well render Paterson&#8217;s (quite possibly illegal) appointment of a Lieutenant Governor moot.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/10\/nyregion\/10albany.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Democrats are back in control of the State Senate<\/a>, and Pedro Espada, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/07\/new-york-state-senate-saga-ending-with-dem-control----and-surprise-twist.php\">changed parties 4 times in his career<\/a>, will be the Senate majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it goes to show you, in politics, no bad deed goes unrewarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;..For a while, at least. This may very well render Paterson&#8217;s (quite possibly illegal) appointment of a Lieutenant Governor moot. In any case, the Democrats are back in control of the State Senate, and Pedro Espada, who has changed parties 4 times in his career, will be the Senate majority leader. I guess it goes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191676"}],"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=191676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}