{"id":194236,"date":"2008-10-14T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/14\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-allow-republicans-to-reflag-as-democrats\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T13:47:00","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-you-allow-republicans-to-reflag-as-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/14\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-allow-republicans-to-reflag-as-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What Happens When You Allow Republicans to Reflag as Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Mahoney (&#8220;D&#8221;-Fla.) has been accused of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/13\/mahoney.ethics.probe\/\">using the threat of firing to maintain an affair with a subordinate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s released a statement that seems to <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/sleuth\/2008\/10\/rep_tim_mahoney_d-fla_publicly.html\">confirm the affair<\/a>, if not the sexual harrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the small story with the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">big<\/span> lesson: He&#8217;s a reflagged Republithug.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Rahm Emmanuel and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, made sure he won the primary to run for Mark Foley&#8217;s seat, beating out a real Democrat in the primary, who would <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">also<\/span> have won once Foley&#8217;s hitting on Congressional pages was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Mahoney (&#8220;D&#8221;-Fla.) has been accused of using the threat of firing to maintain an affair with a subordinate. What&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s released a statement that seems to confirm the affair, if not the sexual harrassment. Here is the small story with the big lesson: He&#8217;s a reflagged Republithug. What&#8217;s more, Rahm Emmanuel and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194236"}],"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=194236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}