{"id":30568,"date":"2018-06-27T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30568"},"modified":"2018-06-27T02:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T02:43:05","slug":"see-you-later-former-rep-ex-con-grimm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30568","title":{"rendered":"See you later, former Rep.\/ex-con Grimm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Good news from Staten Island, N.Y. Republican voters have said &#8220;Hell no!&#8221; to former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who served prison time for tax evasion and once threatened to toss a reporter from a Capitol Rotunda balcony.<\/p>\n<p>Grimm got beat by nearly 30 percentage points by incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to say about this except that GOP voters in Staten Island kept their wits about them by refusing to elect an ex-con to the People&#8217;s House.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got our fair share of crooked bullies in public office already in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from Staten Island, N.Y. Republican voters have said &#8220;Hell no!&#8221; to former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who served prison time for tax evasion and once threatened to toss a reporter from a Capitol Rotunda balcony. Grimm got beat by nearly 30 percentage points by incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan. There&#8217;s not much to say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">See you later, former Rep.\/ex-con Grimm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[849,1941,6262],"class_list":["post-30568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-gop","tag-us-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30573,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30568\/revisions\/30573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}