{"id":1758,"date":"2006-11-08T10:41:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/dan_rather_might_say_that_they_beat_him_like_a_rented_mule.html"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:41:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:41:27","slug":"dan_rather_migh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/dan_rather_migh.html","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather Might Say That They Beat Him Like A Rented Mule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/i_guess_i_suffe.html\">that letter home<\/a> influenced like tens of thousands of voters, not only was it expensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061108\/NEWS02\/611080358\/1018\/NEWS02\">but totally unnecessary as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sens. Jeff Klein, Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Suzi Oppenheimer will serve two more years in Albany.<\/p>\n<p>Klein, 46, faced Bronx County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph &#8220;Jay&#8221; Savino in the 34th state Senate District, with both men claiming they could better represent their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Klein led Savino by a comfortable margin throughout the night. Klein said his apparent victory was a validation of his first term as a state senator.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless that letter home influenced like tens of thousands of voters, not only was it expensive but totally unnecessary as well: Sens. Jeff Klein, Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Suzi Oppenheimer will serve two more years in Albany. Klein, 46, faced Bronx County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph &#8220;Jay&#8221; Savino in the 34th state Senate District, with both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-political","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}