{"id":469,"date":"2009-01-25T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2009-01-25T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:23:20","slug":"dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DiMasi is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/01\/dimasi_to_step.html\">resigning as speaker<\/a> and quitting the General Court entirely. \u00c2\u00a0Good riddance. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;d like to publicly admit that I was wrong when I <a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/468\">wrote about DiMasi<\/a> earlier this month. \u00c2\u00a0I thought he&#8217;d only quit <strong>after<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0his indictment.<\/p>\n<p>I still think he&#8217;s going to be indicted. \u00c2\u00a0I was wrong about the order of events.<\/p>\n<p>Now all eyes turn to the Democratic caucus. \u00c2\u00a0Which ethically-challenged candidate, Rogers or DeLeo, will succeed DiMasi? \u00c2\u00a0I can&#8217;t say that I care. \u00c2\u00a0Let&#8217;s hope a third, clean candidate appears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DiMasi is resigning as speaker and quitting the General Court entirely. \u00c2\u00a0Good riddance. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;d like to publicly admit that I was wrong when I wrote about DiMasi earlier this month. \u00c2\u00a0I thought he&#8217;d only quit after\u00c2\u00a0his indictment. I still think he&#8217;s going to be indicted. \u00c2\u00a0I was wrong about the order of events. Now all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}