{"id":4752,"date":"2010-06-09T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/09\/the-coveted-uncertain-principl\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:26:02","slug":"the-coveted-uncertain-principl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/09\/the-coveted-uncertain-principl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coveted Uncertain Principles Endorsement Goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not in the general habit of endorsing candidates for state office in districts where I don&#8217;t live, but I think I can make an exception <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbng.com\/news\/local\/95877499.html\">in this case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a unanimous vote, the Broome County Democratic Committee approved of Town of Triangle Councilman John Orzel to run for the state&#8217;s 52nd district, currently represented by Republican Sen. Thomas W. Libous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>John Orzel is my uncle, and my 10th and 12th grade Social Studies teacher back in the day. Libous is a career politician in the most negative sense of the phrase, and was one of the Republicans who orchestrated last summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/12\/nyregion\/12albany.html\">farcical Republican takeover of the state senate<\/a>. Anybody who had a part in making the state government look that stupid deserves to lose his seat.<\/p>\n<p>Put those together, and this is probably the easiest endorsement in history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not in the general habit of endorsing candidates for state office in districts where I don&#8217;t live, but I think I can make an exception in this case: In a unanimous vote, the Broome County Democratic Committee approved of Town of Triangle Councilman John Orzel to run for the state&#8217;s 52nd district, currently represented&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/09\/the-coveted-uncertain-principl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Coveted Uncertain Principles Endorsement Goes to&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}