{"id":711,"date":"2024-03-10T06:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=711"},"modified":"2024-03-10T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T09:17:26","slug":"the-black-hole-thats-about-to-eat-local-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/the-black-hole-thats-about-to-eat-local-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018black hole\u2019 that\u2019s about to eat local politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Will this finally be the year for a Republican revival in Washington state?That\u2019s suddenly the question of the hour, as the dominant Democrats stumbled and bumbled their way through a state legislative session in Olympia that somehow granted big victories to the party with no power.\u201cIt\u2019s an enormous win for us,\u201d was how Senate Minority Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, described the political shifts. The Democrats were forced to grit their teeth and vote in three out of six conservative initiative measures, including undoing one of their own police reforms as well as banning state income taxes.\u201cDemocratic leaders totally lost the plot,\u201d\u00a0fumed\u00a0Robert Cruickshank, a Democratic activist and organizer. \u201cHuge failure by Dems.\u201dAmong other things,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will this finally be the year for a Republican revival in Washington state?That&rsquo;s suddenly the question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}