{"id":892,"date":"2009-06-08T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2009-06-08T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:40:05","slug":"a_portent_of_things_to_come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"A Portent Of Things To Come??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06082009\/news\/regionalnews\/gop_takes_control_of_state_senate_173215.htm\">The New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that this afternoon the Republicans took control of the New York State Senate away from the Democrats.&nbsp; Evidently two dissident Democrats decided to form a coalition with the Republicans.&nbsp; This must have been interesting.&nbsp; The Post reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p jquery1244494740359=\"7\"><em>&#8220;Democrats tried to leave the chamber at one point &#8212; even turning off the lights briefly before order was restored.<\/em><\/p>\n<p jquery1244494740359=\"8\"><em>&#8220;Democrats said they plan to take the fight to court. <\/em><\/p>\n<p jquery1244494740359=\"9\"><em>&#8220;In a statement sent out by Smith&#8217;s office, a spokesman called the move &#8220;illegal and unlawful&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p jquery1244494740359=\"10\"><em>&#8220;Nothing has changed, Senator Malcolm A. Smith remains the duly elected Temporary President and Majority Leader,&#8221; the spokesman added. &#8220;The real Senate Majority is anxious to get back to governing, and will take immediate steps to get us back to work.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" jquery1244494740359=\"10\">I have no idea what the legal ramifications of this event are, but these events need to be followed to see&nbsp;how the courts will rule.&nbsp; Evidently the revolt was the result of dissatisfaction with Senator Smith, who is the majority leader.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see what happens next.<!--\n\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n\n<p><a href=\"\/eedition\" class=\"a8blb\" target=\"new\"><strong>Subscribe to the Electronic Edition and get the New York Post exactly as it appears in print.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Post&nbsp;is reporting that this afternoon the Republicans took control of the New York State Senate away from the Democrats.&nbsp; Evidently two dissident Democrats decided to form a coalition with the Republicans.&nbsp; This must have been interesting.&nbsp; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}