{"id":1749,"date":"2006-11-08T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/voting\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:35:53","slug":"voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/voting\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTING — VICTORIES AND A MISTAKE – REMOVING JANE HARMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK.  These results are pretty exciting.  But even as we are pleased to see change, ugliness emerges.  I admit it.  I went to college with Jane Harman<\/a>.  But I never see her; we don’t go to lunch – we don’t even go to the same fundraisers.  In fact, I see her sometimes at college events and that’s it.  But I’ve been very proud of her.  <\/p>\n

\"Jane_harman\"<\/a> She has been honorable, smart and fierce in protecting the US through her work on the House Intelligence Committee as its Ranking Member and now, as the Democrats emerge as a majority, the FIRST WOMAN SPEAKER wants to dump her from her chance to Chair of the entire committee.  This is a critical job – not a "woman" or "minority" opportunity but, if anywhere in the House, a place for the best possible PERSON to hold the job.  And she’s going to be pushed aside because of a falling-out with Nancy Pelosi and because of her ability to work across the aisle on the issue where it’s most important to do so.  Am I crazy?  I don’t know the subtleties of this but in my bones it feels wrong.  Speak up please.  I need to know why this is OK if it happens.  It just seems so wrong to me – not only for Jane but for — to be corny — the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK.  These results are pretty exciting.  But even as we are pleased to see change, ugliness emerges.  I admit it.  I went to college with Jane Harman.  But I never see her; we don’t go to lunch – we don’t even go to the same fundraisers.  In fact, I see her sometimes at college events … Continue reading VOTING — VICTORIES AND A MISTAKE – REMOVING JANE HARMAN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[2476,282,2474,1632,2475],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics","tag-committee-chair","tag-election","tag-house-intelligence-committee","tag-jane-harman","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4gBq8-voting","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}