{"id":192030,"date":"2009-05-20T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/20\/its-a-chu-chu-race\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T01:13:00","slug":"its-a-chu-chu-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/20\/its-a-chu-chu-race\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Chu-Chu Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But not between locomotives.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-local21-2009may21,0,6796075.story\">Judy Chu won the special election to replace Hilda Solis<\/a> in California&#8217;s 32nd Congressional district, but did not get an absolute majority, and Betty Tom Chu was the highest finishing Republican, so they, along with Libertarian candidate Christopher Agrella face off in a runoff in runoff on July 14, Bastille Day.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, it appears that the two Chu&#8217;s are distantly related.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it is a solidly Democratic district, so Judy Chu should likely be the next Representative from CA-32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not between locomotives. Judy Chu won the special election to replace Hilda Solis in California&#8217;s 32nd Congressional district, but did not get an absolute majority, and Betty Tom Chu was the highest finishing Republican, so they, along with Libertarian candidate Christopher Agrella face off in a runoff in runoff on July 14, Bastille Day. &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-192030","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\/192030"}],"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=192030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}