{"id":196748,"date":"2008-03-27T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/27\/al-wynn-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:02:00","slug":"al-wynn-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/27\/al-wynn-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Wynn to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wynn is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/27\/AR2008032702136.html?hpid=topnews\">retiring, effective June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nominally, the reason given is that he wants to give Edwards a leg up on the general, that she does not need, but I don&#8217;t buy that.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that either he wants to get a running start on his lucrative lobbying gig, or he is doing this as a way to shaft either Donna Edwards or his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion would for O&#8217;Malley to call a special election on the same day as the general.  That way Edwards has a seniority edge on the rest of the 2009 Freshman class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wynn is retiring, effective June. Nominally, the reason given is that he wants to give Edwards a leg up on the general, that she does not need, but I don&#8217;t buy that. My guess is that either he wants to get a running start on his lucrative lobbying gig, or he is doing this as &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-196748","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\/196748"}],"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=196748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}