{"id":1549,"date":"2006-09-12T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/comic_relief_emphasis_on_relief.html"},"modified":"2006-09-12T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T19:00:51","slug":"comic_relief_em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/comic_relief_em.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief . . . Emphasis On Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

He may not have the kind of experience you would expect from someone who would be representing several hundred thousand constituents in the U.S. Congress, but Chris Owens has a nice sense of humor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democratic candidates In today’s four-way congressional primary race stuffed the mailboxes in the final push to succeed retiring Brooklyn Rep. Major Owens.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Chris Owens, the incumbent’s son, whose campaign hasn’t sparked as much enthusiasm as his rivals’, also sent out some mail over the weekend.<\/p>\n

One even said, “No, this is not another mailing from David Yassky. It is your only piece of mail from Chris Owens.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I declare the campaign is over: Close Race<\/a>; Score One For Opportunism<\/a>; The Post Oppo Research Machine Chugs Along<\/a>; See, The Thing Is Was, Senior Year Was Just Such A Blur For Me . . .<\/a>; Excitement!<\/a>; Well, That’s A Relief!<\/a>; Pay To Campaign!<\/a>; Recipe For Hitting The Front Page Of The Sunday Times: Just Add Sharpton<\/a>; You Know You’ve Jumped The Shark When . . .<\/a>; Unite To Stop White Individuals!<\/a>; The Sad Thing Is That It Was Probably A Carefully Crafted Statement<\/a>; How Do We Put This? Let’s Just Say Identity Politics Still Exists . . .<\/a>; Barack Obama: Some Guy They Stuck In There<\/a>; Nothing Against Your Policies, It’s Just The Color Of Your Skin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He may not have the kind of experience you would expect from someone who would be representing several hundred thousand constituents in the U.S. Congress, but Chris Owens has a nice sense of humor: Democratic candidates In today’s four-way congressional primary race stuffed the mailboxes in the final push to succeed retiring Brooklyn Rep. Major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,64,14,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-please_make_it_stop","category-political","category-thats_a_hoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}