{"id":198244,"date":"2007-11-28T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/28\/in-fing-sane-the-michigan-state-house\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T02:30:00","slug":"in-fing-sane-the-michigan-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/28\/in-fing-sane-the-michigan-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"In-F%$#ing-Sane:  The Michigan State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the state courts have said that it is legal, but with everyone by Hillary Clinton and Chris Dodd having withdrawn their names from the ballot, why should it matter?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071125\/COL04\/711250573\/1001\/NEWS\">now the state legislature is poised to put candidates back on the ballot against their will<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this is not a bill of attainder, it certainly is a violation of the free speech rights of the candidates, who have the right <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NOT<\/span> to run in any state that they wish.<\/p>\n<p>If this passes, it will be in court before the governor&#8217;s signature ink is dry.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I want to see Chris Dodd beat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, I spoke too soon, the House approved the bill, but <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/27\/four_democrats_will_not_be_on_michigan_ballot.html\">the state Senate refused to take it up<\/a>, so iut&#8217;s just the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">house<\/span> that is batsh$@ insane, not the whole legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the state courts have said that it is legal, but with everyone by Hillary Clinton and Chris Dodd having withdrawn their names from the ballot, why should it matter? Well, now the state legislature is poised to put candidates back on the ballot against their will. If this is not a bill of attainder, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198244"}],"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=198244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}