{"id":197756,"date":"2008-01-14T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/another-republican-house-seat-in-play\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T11:04:00","slug":"another-republican-house-seat-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/another-republican-house-seat-in-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Republican House Seat in Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jerry Weller (R-El Guatamala<sup>*<\/sup>) has decided not to run for re-election<sup>\u2020<\/sup>, and both the Republicans and Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/mochila.php?articleId=11540995&amp;channelId=76&amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;buid=866\">are scrambling to try to get the seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been Republican for years, but appears increasingly competitive, With the vote being 46%D 43%R, and 11%Green in the last gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">His wife is the daughter of Efrain Rios Mott, wanted by the ICC for genocide against Mayan Indians in Guatamala.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">He&#8217;s financially tied into Mott, and has a history of shady Central American land deals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jerry Weller (R-El Guatamala*) has decided not to run for re-election\u2020, and both the Republicans and Democrats are scrambling to try to get the seat. It&#8217;s been Republican for years, but appears increasingly competitive, With the vote being 46%D 43%R, and 11%Green in the last gubernatorial election. *His wife is the daughter of Efrain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197756"}],"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=197756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}