{"id":4785,"date":"2012-04-30T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2012-04-30T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:30:24","slug":"if-i-agree-with-wiener-does-that-make-me-a-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/if-i-agree-with-wiener-does-that-make-me-a-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"If I agree with Wiener does that make me a dick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Michael Wiener is an insensitive boor, surely sexist, possibly racist (who isn&#8217;t). His bumper sticker: Guns don&#8217;t kill people, husbands who come home early kill people. Why didn&#8217;t his mindset die in the Sixties? Still, I agree with him: let the people decide. I hope the voters in his district kick his ass to the curb. If they don&#8217;t, well, that will say a lot about those voters. But electing the fool in the first place did that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/wiener-rejects-calls-for-his-resignation\/\">Wiener rejects calls for his resignation | NMPolitics.net<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s an election in 37 days and if the people at that time want to pick somebody else to represent them on the county commission, that\u2019s certainly the way a democracy works that we all belong to,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/S2600791.shtml?cat=500\">KOB-TV<\/a> quoted him as saying. \u201cAnd I\u2019m going to let the voters in my district speak rather than a few elected officials.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/wiener-rejects-calls-for-his-resignation\/\">Wiener rejects calls for his resignation | NMPolitics.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Michael Wiener is an insensitive boor, surely sexist, possibly racist (who isn&#8217;t). His bumper sticker: Guns don&#8217;t kill people, husbands who come home early kill people. Why didn&#8217;t his mindset die in the Sixties? Still, I agree with him: let the people decide. I hope the voters in his district kick his ass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/if-i-agree-with-wiener-does-that-make-me-a-dick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If I agree with Wiener does that make me a dick?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albahquerque","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}