{"id":193382,"date":"2008-12-19T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/19\/inouye-next-on-cunningham-scandal-hit-parade\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T16:06:00","slug":"inouye-next-on-cunningham-scandal-hit-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/19\/inouye-next-on-cunningham-scandal-hit-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Inouye Next on Cunningham Scandal Hit Parade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, what should be one of the safest seats in the Senate may be at risk because of the perception of scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In a situation that has macabre reflections on Ted Stevens, it appears that defense contractor Mitchell Wade has been cooperating extensively with authorities, and he has reportedly named 5 members of Congress, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/a-final-note-on-cunningham-scandal-1217#When:16:20:32Z\">including Daniel Inouye<\/a>, though it is unclear whether we are talking proximity, ethics issues, or actual violations of the law.<\/p>\n<p>As Hawaii now has a rather popular governor, should this progress much further, the reelection of the senior Senator from Hawaii may not be a sure thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, what should be one of the safest seats in the Senate may be at risk because of the perception of scandal. In a situation that has macabre reflections on Ted Stevens, it appears that defense contractor Mitchell Wade has been cooperating extensively with authorities, and he has reportedly named 5 members of Congress, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193382"}],"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=193382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}