{"id":10019,"date":"2011-06-08T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10019"},"modified":"2011-06-08T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:41:50","slug":"weiner%e2%80%99s-rise-to-power-also-involved-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10019\/weiner%e2%80%99s-rise-to-power-also-involved-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiner\u2019s Rise to Power Also Involved Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Salon<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/new_york_city\/index.html?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/06\/07\/anthony_weiner_1991\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Kornacki<\/a> details how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/pressure-ramps-up-on-anthony-weiner-to-resign\/2011\/06\/08\/AGKnTJMH_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">embattled<\/a> Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) won his first election as a city councilman by linking a primary opponent to an infamous race riot.\u00a0 Though the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/new_york_city\/index.html?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/06\/07\/anthony_weiner_1991\" target=\"_blank\">entire article<\/a> is worth reading, Kornacki\u2019s conclusion sums up what many are feeling about the justice of removing Weiner from office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026he parlayed his Council spot into a seat in Congress, and you know the story from there. But who knows where Weiner would be today if he hadn&#8217;t made such a dark appeal to racial hostility days after a notorious riot?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something worth keeping in mind now, as Weiner&#8217;s career hangs in the balance. Is it unfair if he loses his political future because of a scandal as dumb as this one? Sure. But it&#8217;s also not exactly fair that he ever made it this far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon\u2019s Steve Kornacki details how embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) won his first election as a city councilman by linking a primary opponent to an infamous race riot.\u00a0 Though the entire article is worth reading, Kornacki\u2019s conclusion sums up what many are feeling about the justice of removing Weiner from office: \u2026he parlayed his Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2748,1193,2772,560,1638],"class_list":["post-10019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-anthony-weiner","tag-campaign","tag-dirty-trick","tag-new-york","tag-race-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10022,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}