{"id":191903,"date":"2009-06-08T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/08\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-43\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T22:42:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/08\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that two &#8220;Democratic&#8221; State Senators in New York State just <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/08\/revolt-could-imperil-democratic-control-of-senate\/?hp\">switched sides<\/a>, and may have handed over controll of the State Senate to the &#8216;Phants.<\/p>\n<p>There are elections in 2010, and it&#8217;s pretty clear that the Republican Gerrymandering of the State Senate had already run into its limits, but I gotta figure that the knives are really out for Governor David Paterson now, because he, and his staff, are supposed to be all over this sort of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, there are rumors that this is about anti-gay bigotry, and the fact that the Senate would pass a gay marriage bill, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2009\/06\/smith-im-still-leader-monserra.html\">this story<\/a> seems to indicate that it&#8217;s just an old fashioned, and legal, political payoff, with positions promised in exchange for votes.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Cuomo, you need to go from &#8220;no plans&#8221;, to, &#8220;Yes, I am running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I think that having a federally court imposed redistricting in 2011 or so would be better than letting the Republicans Gerrymander again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that two &#8220;Democratic&#8221; State Senators in New York State just switched sides, and may have handed over controll of the State Senate to the &#8216;Phants. There are elections in 2010, and it&#8217;s pretty clear that the Republican Gerrymandering of the State Senate had already run into its limits, but I gotta figure that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191903"}],"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=191903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}