{"id":660,"date":"2008-12-03T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-12-03T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T03:01:17","slug":"the-cleanest-state-meets-the-pushiest-person-al-franken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"The Cleanest State Meets the Pushiest Person, Al Franken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=29768\" target=\"_blank\">Human Events<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until now, Minnesota was always famous for its clean elections. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel recently attested to the honesty of Minnesota&#8217;s elections, joking: &#8220;Believe me. I&#8217;ve tried. I&#8217;ve tried every way around the system out there, and it doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that was before Minnesota encountered the pushiest, most aggressive, most unscrupulous person who has ever sought public office, Al Franken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=29768\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Human Events Until now, Minnesota was always famous for its clean elections. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel recently attested to the honesty of Minnesota&#8217;s elections, joking: &#8220;Believe me. I&#8217;ve tried. I&#8217;ve tried every way around the system out there, and it doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221; But that was before Minnesota encountered the pushiest, most aggressive, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}