{"id":1248,"date":"2007-09-19T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2007-09-19T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T14:10:00","slug":"king-willie-to-hold-press-conference-at-11-wants-early-voting-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/king-willie-to-hold-press-conference-at-11-wants-early-voting-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"King Willie to hold press conference at 11; wants early voting halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Herenton will hold a press conference at 11 AM this morning.  He claims that the voting machines being used to early-vote for the mayoral and city council races are defective.  He says he has received &#8220;numerous complaints&#8221; about the machines, and will ask the Election Commission to stop early voting.<\/p>\n<p>I bet the mayor&#8217;s campaign staff have been doing a little exit-polling at the early voting locations, and have discovered that things aren&#8217;t going their way.  Why am I not surprised that the people who are too dumb to understand how to use a voting machine are the ones who are voting for Willie?<\/p>\n<p>This man is unbelievable.  PLEASE go to the polls and vote for Morris, Chumney or whomever you feel is most qualified to lead the city.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to go to a coffee shop and work this morning, but I guess I&#8217;ll have to do it from home so I can be in front of the TV and watch our mayor make an ass of himself.  Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Herenton will hold a press conference at 11 AM this morning. He claims that the voting machines being used to early-vote for the mayoral and city council races are defective. He says he has received &#8220;numerous complaints&#8221; about the machines, and will ask the Election Commission to stop early voting. I bet the mayor&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/king-willie-to-hold-press-conference-at-11-wants-early-voting-halted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;King Willie to hold press conference at 11; wants early voting halted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->