{"id":1573,"date":"2004-10-04T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:54:46","slug":"1573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/1573\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Further Down The Slippery Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Minnesota, a 17-year-old prewoman (because <i>girl<\/i> is sexist nomenclature, donchaknow) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/3780345\/detail.html\" target=\"_new\">running for mayor<\/a>.  The biggest obstacle, aside from being only a write-in candidate and being unable to vote for herself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Even so, state law says candidates must be eligible voters and at least 21 years old when they take office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The plucky little prewoman remains undaunted, because she can tell which way the wind blows, and apparently the wind is the only constant in civic life in the twenty-first century:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Feehan-Nelson said that if she receives the highest number of votes but is not certified, she is prepared to take the matter to court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I doubt the judge would be able to say no to the popular vote,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The people&#8217;s right to choose prevails over (state law).&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isolated incident?  A small stone begins an avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>(Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespoonsexperience.com\/archives\/003002.php#003002\" target=\"_new\">The Spoons Experience<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Minnesota, a 17-year-old prewoman (because girl is sexist nomenclature, donchaknow) is running for mayor. The biggest obstacle, aside from being only a write-in candidate and being unable to vote for herself: Even so, state law says candidates must be eligible voters and at least 21 years old when they take office. The plucky little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20978,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/20978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}