{"id":193159,"date":"2009-01-14T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/14\/jesse-jackson-jr-just-threw-his-hat-into-the-ring-for-senate-in-2010\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:18:00","slug":"jesse-jackson-jr-just-threw-his-hat-into-the-ring-for-senate-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/14\/jesse-jackson-jr-just-threw-his-hat-into-the-ring-for-senate-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson, Jr. Just Threw His Hat Into the Ring For Senate in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0109\/17417.html\">money quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Jackson supported Burris\u2019 effort to claim the seat to which he was appointed by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich but criticized him for allowing his supporters to play the race card. This \u201cracialization of the Senate seat is going to be a profound problem for Democrats,\u201d Jackson told Politico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I agree with the sentiment, this is Representative Jackson&#8217;s first salvo in a primary battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the money quote: Jackson supported Burris\u2019 effort to claim the seat to which he was appointed by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich but criticized him for allowing his supporters to play the race card. This \u201cracialization of the Senate seat is going to be a profound problem for Democrats,\u201d Jackson told Politico. While I &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-193159","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\/193159"}],"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=193159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}