{"id":3615,"date":"2010-02-05T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2010-02-05T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:01:18","slug":"best-political-lede-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3615\/best-political-lede-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Political Lede of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Josh Kraushaar, politico.com:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the same day Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn officially claimed the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, he found out that his newly-minted running mate has a rap sheet that includes alleged domestic battery and tax evasion.\u00a0 The revelation has shocked Democrats, leading to worries that his presence could taint the entire statewide ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to court records obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Scott Lee Cohen, a millionaire pawnbroker who prevailed with a narrow plurality in the crowded primary for lieutenant governor, was accused by his ex-girlfriend, a prostitute, of holding a knife to her neck in a 2005 domestic dispute.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/32563.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Josh Kraushaar, politico.com:\u00a0 On the same day Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn officially claimed the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, he found out that his newly-minted running mate has a rap sheet that includes alleged domestic battery and tax evasion.\u00a0 The revelation has shocked Democrats, leading to worries that his presence could taint the entire statewide ticket. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[808,807],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-pat-quinn","tag-scott-lee-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}