{"id":989,"date":"2007-05-17T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=989"},"modified":"2007-05-17T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T15:43:00","slug":"if-you-live-downtown-this-is-the-kind-of-representation-youre-getting-in-the-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/if-you-live-downtown-this-is-the-kind-of-representation-youre-getting-in-the-state-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"If you live downtown, this is the kind of representation you&#8217;re getting in the state Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the news this week:  State Senator Ophelia Ford went off on a wild, bizarre off-topic rant during a Department of Child Protective Services hearing.  She asked a lot of irrelevant questions about death certificates, and continued to badger the DCS officials even after they told her several times that they have nothing to do with that matter.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesunbelt.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=584\">Here&#8217;s a link to the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day she was hospitalized.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmctv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6527699\">Here&#8217;s a story about it from WMC TV-5.<\/a>  The story did not specify the exact nature of Ophelia&#8217;s illness, but local political blogger Thaddeus Matthews has done some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaddeusmatthews.com\/\">speculating<\/a> on that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Ophelia was in the news earlier this year for missing 13 of the first 24 session days of the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>If you live Downtown, you&#8217;re in District 29 and Ophelia is YOUR state Senator.  Are you happy with the job she&#8217;s doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the news this week: State Senator Ophelia Ford went off on a wild, bizarre off-topic rant during a Department of Child Protective Services hearing. She asked a lot of irrelevant questions about death certificates, and continued to badger the DCS officials even after they told her several times that they have nothing to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/if-you-live-downtown-this-is-the-kind-of-representation-youre-getting-in-the-state-senate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you live downtown, this is the kind of representation you&#8217;re getting in the state Senate&#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\/989"}],"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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"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! -->