{"id":199895,"date":"2007-06-19T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/bloomberg-leaving-republican-party\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T03:01:00","slug":"bloomberg-leaving-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/bloomberg-leaving-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Leaving Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great.  Now we get to see <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Another<\/span><\/span> exercise in political masturbation.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as we have a large number of people who won&#8217;t be able to bring themselves to vote Republithug this time around, this gives them a way <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">NOT<\/span> to vote Democratic.<\/p>\n<p>Wanker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/19\/bloomberg-leaving-republican-party\/\">Bloomberg Leaving Republican Party<\/a><br \/>By Sewell Chan<br \/>UPDATED, 8:01 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Michael R. Bloomberg, a longtime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City in 2001, announced this evening that he is changing his party status and registering as an independent. His office released this statement at 6:05 p.m. (EST): <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great. Now we get to see Another exercise in political masturbation. Seeing as we have a large number of people who won&#8217;t be able to bring themselves to vote Republithug this time around, this gives them a way NOT to vote Democratic. Wanker. Bloomberg Leaving Republican PartyBy Sewell ChanUPDATED, 8:01 p.m. Michael R. Bloomberg, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199895"}],"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=199895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}