{"id":199190,"date":"2007-08-28T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/28\/another-corrupt-rat-leaving-the-ship\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T23:15:00","slug":"another-corrupt-rat-leaving-the-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/28\/another-corrupt-rat-leaving-the-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Corrupt Rat Leaving the Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/mochila.php?articleId=7264008&amp;channelId=73&amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;buid=\">corrupt congressman Rick Renzi, under federal probe for corruption in his insurance business, will not be seeking reelection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buh bye!<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that given that it&#8217;s a competitive district, and Renzi is being investigated for crooked land deals, campaign law violations, and a significant roll in the US attorney firings, he though that it was time to get out of dodge.<\/p>\n<p>On the brighter side, unlike some other people who have returned to private life <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">*cough*<\/span> Gonzalez <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">*cough*<\/span> Rumsfeld <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">*cough*<\/span> Bremer <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">*cough*<\/span>, he won&#8217;t have to worry about being hauled off to the Hague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, corrupt congressman Rick Renzi, under federal probe for corruption in his insurance business, will not be seeking reelection. Buh bye! My guess is that given that it&#8217;s a competitive district, and Renzi is being investigated for crooked land deals, campaign law violations, and a significant roll in the US attorney firings, he though that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199190"}],"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=199190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}