{"id":196649,"date":"2008-04-04T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/04\/omalley-pushing-law-change-for-special-election\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:05:00","slug":"omalley-pushing-law-change-for-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/04\/omalley-pushing-law-change-for-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Malley Pushing Law Change for Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Wynn has given his resignation, there is a consensus developing in Annapolis that it would be a good thing for Donna Edwards to get in on an early election, if just to give her a seniority jump on the other freshman congressmen.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley is proposing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/02\/AR2008040202041.html?hpid=topnews\">change in the election law to allow for a special election based on the current primary results<\/a>, which would cut the cost of special elections in half, more so if you hold it at the same time as the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Generally it sounds good to me, though I&#8217;m inclined to go with the special election and swearing in at the same time as the general, as it is even cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Wynn has given his resignation, there is a consensus developing in Annapolis that it would be a good thing for Donna Edwards to get in on an early election, if just to give her a seniority jump on the other freshman congressmen. O&#8217;Malley is proposing a change in the election law to allow &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-196649","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\/196649"}],"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=196649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}