{"id":195737,"date":"2008-06-17T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/donna-edwards-wins-special-election-in-md-4\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:03:00","slug":"donna-edwards-wins-special-election-in-md-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/donna-edwards-wins-special-election-in-md-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Edwards Wins Special Election in MD-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/politics\/bal-congress0617,0,5174133.story\">crushed Peter James<\/a> with more than 70% of the vote, and she is a lead pipe cinch to win in November, so she will have a bit of a leg up in terms of seniority over the other freshman Congressmen.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the election did cost a bit of money.  Maybe we should send the bill to Al Wynn, whose resignation in his eagerness to cash in on a lobbying gig led to the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She crushed Peter James with more than 70% of the vote, and she is a lead pipe cinch to win in November, so she will have a bit of a leg up in terms of seniority over the other freshman Congressmen. Of course, the election did cost a bit of money. Maybe we should send &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195737"}],"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=195737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}