{"id":198953,"date":"2007-09-25T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/25\/finally-an-endorsement-from-me\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:46:00","slug":"finally-an-endorsement-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/25\/finally-an-endorsement-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, an Endorsement From Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markperaforcongress.com\/\">Mark Pera for Congress (Il-03)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois 3rd district is very solidly Democratic (+10% dem), and the incumbent, Dan Lipinski is one of the worst Bush Dogs out there.  He&#8217;s pro war, favors criminalizing abortion, and supported federal intervention in the case of Terri Schiavo.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, this is a &#8220;safe&#8221; endorsement for me, because even if my jinx<sup>*<\/sup> holds true, it&#8217;s still a vote for Speaker Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Lipinski is a Democrat that we can simply do without.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Yes, I know that superstitions are silly, and I frequently belittle people for them, but this, and the Hope Diamond<sup>\u2020<\/sup> are where my rationality deserts me.<br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup>I wouldn&#8217;t take that cursed diamond if you paid me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Pera for Congress (Il-03). The Illinois 3rd district is very solidly Democratic (+10% dem), and the incumbent, Dan Lipinski is one of the worst Bush Dogs out there. He&#8217;s pro war, favors criminalizing abortion, and supported federal intervention in the case of Terri Schiavo. As an aside, this is a &#8220;safe&#8221; endorsement for me, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,998,1165,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-congress","category-endorsement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198953"}],"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=198953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}