{"id":193238,"date":"2009-01-06T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/06\/tim-kaine-to-head-dnc\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T03:43:00","slug":"tim-kaine-to-head-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/06\/tim-kaine-to-head-dnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Kaine to head DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this development reflects a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0109\/17034.html\">decision by Barack Obama to de-emphasize and reduce the activity level of the Democratic National Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of his virtues or vices, and I see VA Governor Tim Kaine as a Conservative in the party, it&#8217;s clear that he <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">can&#8217;t<\/span> devote himself full time to running the DNC.<\/p>\n<p>In normal times, being governor is a full time job, and now, with state finances imploding, it&#8217;s twice that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this development reflects a decision by Barack Obama to de-emphasize and reduce the activity level of the Democratic National Committee. Regardless of his virtues or vices, and I see VA Governor Tim Kaine as a Conservative in the party, it&#8217;s clear that he can&#8217;t devote himself full time to running the DNC. &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193238"}],"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=193238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}