{"id":198006,"date":"2007-12-21T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/hans-von-spakovsky-out-at-fec\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:09:00","slug":"hans-von-spakovsky-out-at-fec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/21\/hans-von-spakovsky-out-at-fec\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans von Spakovsky out at FEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But so is everyone else, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004958.php\">because the Republicans are insisting on an up or down vote on all 4 nominees at once<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means that come January, the FEC will be unable to have a quorum to conduct meetings, but given von Spakovsky&#8217;s record, in which it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/003722.php\">his entire career has been dedicated to suppressing minority votes<\/a>, it&#8217;s a reasonable tradeoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But so is everyone else, because the Republicans are insisting on an up or down vote on all 4 nominees at once. This means that come January, the FEC will be unable to have a quorum to conduct meetings, but given von Spakovsky&#8217;s record, in which it appears that his entire career has been dedicated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198006"}],"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=198006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}