{"id":9810,"date":"2011-08-10T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9810"},"modified":"2011-08-10T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:58:08","slug":"republican-democracy-fails-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/republican-democracy-fails-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Democracy Fails Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/127435173.html\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans take 4 of 6 in recall elections, hold Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats won two state Senate seats in Tuesday&#8217;s historic recall elections, but failed to capture a third seat that would have given them control of the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>By keeping a majority in the Senate, Republicans retained their monopoly on state government because they also hold the Assembly and governor&#8217;s office. Tuesday&#8217;s elections narrowed their majority &#8211; at least for now &#8211; from 19-14 to a razor-thin 17-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only there were some way <em>the people could have voiced their opinions!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the election in 2010, the Supreme Court election, the recall elections&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>(More from Wisconsonites <a href=\"http:\/\/troglopundit.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/09\/republicans-win-4-2-retain-control-of-the-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Troglopundit<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/recall-effort-has-apparently-failed-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Althouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans take 4 of 6 in recall elections, hold Senate: Democrats won two state Senate seats in Tuesday&#8217;s historic recall elections, but failed to capture a third seat that would have given them control of the chamber. By keeping a majority in the Senate, Republicans retained their monopoly on state government because they also hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810","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=9810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9812,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}