{"id":1860,"date":"2008-03-21T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/21\/this-blog-endorses-ashwin-madi\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:47:07","slug":"this-blog-endorses-ashwin-madi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/this-blog-endorses-ashwin-madi\/","title":{"rendered":"This Blog Endorses Ashwin Madia for US Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-42463a742e85439b72c48a8d3e7dcc49-madia.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-42463a742e85439b72c48a8d3e7dcc49-madia.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The Third Congressional District from Minnesota, in which I live, has been a Republican seat since the districts around the Twin Cities were Jerrymandered some time ago.  The Republican incumbent in this district is retiring this year, and there is a reasonable chance of flipping the district to a Democrat.  Ashwin Madia is moving quickly towards attaining the DFL (That&#8217;s Minnesotan for &#8216;Democratic&#8217;) endorsement.  (I caucuses for him in the Senate Distract convention a couple of weeks ago).  He&#8217;s an excellent candidate, and will make an excellent member of congress.  If you are a voter in the Third District, please consider supporting him this November.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madiaforcongress.com\/\">Visit Madia&#8217;s web site and have a look. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Third Congressional District from Minnesota, in which I live, has been a Republican seat since the districts around the Twin Cities were Jerrymandered some time ago. The Republican incumbent in this district is retiring this year, and there is a reasonable chance of flipping the district to a Democrat. Ashwin Madia is moving quickly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/this-blog-endorses-ashwin-madi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Blog Endorses Ashwin Madia for US Congress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-u0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}