{"id":4715,"date":"2009-01-31T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:17:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T23:17:52","slug":"good-to-see-our-legislators-take-their-jobs-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/31\/good-to-see-our-legislators-take-their-jobs-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Good To See Our Legislators Take Their Jobs Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator proposes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/political-fix\/political-fix\/2009\/01\/sen-kevin-engler-does-not-like-trash-or-white-trash\/\" target=\"_blank\">death penalty for littering<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think that if we kill just a couple of people we catch, the rest will catch on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He called the people perpetrating the littering &#8220;white trash&#8221; and &#8220;rednecks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, he clarified he was joking about the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing this tongue in cheek, obviously,&#8221; he said, and withdrew the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This bozo is a <i>Republican<\/i>, no less.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a humourless guy, no matter what this blog might indicate otherwise, but the legislature is not the place for jokes.  I mean, someone might take it seriously, and suddenly you&#8217;re passing $825 billion dollars in junk stimulus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator proposes death penalty for littering: &#8220;I think that if we kill just a couple of people we catch, the rest will catch on,&#8221; he said. He called the people perpetrating the littering &#8220;white trash&#8221; and &#8220;rednecks.&#8221; Soon after, he clarified he was joking about the bill. &#8220;I&#8217;m doing this tongue in cheek, obviously,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","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=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}