{"id":193553,"date":"2008-12-07T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/07\/dollar-bill-jefferson-loses\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T00:52:00","slug":"dollar-bill-jefferson-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/07\/dollar-bill-jefferson-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dollar&#8221; Bill Jefferson Loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the election in Louisiana&#8217;s 2nd Congressional district went to a runoff, which was postponed because of a hurricane, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/12\/jefferson_cao_in_dead_heat.html\">Anh &#8216;Joseph&#8217; Cao has defeated Rep. William &#8220;Dollar Bill&#8221; Jefferson<\/a>, the man who defined &#8220;cold cash&#8221; as$90,000.00 of bribe money in his freezer.<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the election in Louisiana&#8217;s 2nd Congressional district went to a runoff, which was postponed because of a hurricane, and Anh &#8216;Joseph&#8217; Cao has defeated Rep. William &#8220;Dollar Bill&#8221; Jefferson, the man who defined &#8220;cold cash&#8221; as$90,000.00 of bribe money in his freezer. Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193553"}],"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=193553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}