{"id":195657,"date":"2008-06-24T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship-3\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:42:00","slug":"rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/rats-leaving-a-sinking-ship-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/24\/nyregion\/24bruno.html?em&amp;ex=1214366400&amp;en=cc81e1c0b8cb4904&amp;ei=5087%0A\">Republican New York State Majority Leader Joseph Bruno<\/a>, who has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Phants have a 1 seat majority in the state senate, and I think that Bruno knows that this will change and that the Senate will go Democratic in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, a redistricting at the state senate level will follow, because that body is ridiculously gerrymandered, since the Dems will then hold both state houses and the governor&#8217;s mansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s Republican New York State Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who has announced his retirement. The &#8216;Phants have a 1 seat majority in the state senate, and I think that Bruno knows that this will change and that the Senate will go Democratic in 2008. Hopefully, a redistricting at the state senate level will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195657"}],"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=195657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}