{"id":192,"date":"2002-02-20T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2002-02-21T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/yahoo-news-sen-jeffords\/"},"modified":"2002-02-20T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2002-02-21T04:10:54","slug":"yahoo-news-sen-jeffords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/yahoo-news-sen-jeffords\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! News &#8211; Sen. Jeffords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=536&#038;u=\/ap\/20020221\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/jeffords_democrats_2\">Yahoo! News &#8211; Sen. Jeffords to Campaign for Dems<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) &#8211; Sen. James Jeffords (news &#8211; web sites), an independent who abandoned the Republican party last year, said Wednesday he&#8217;ll campaign for some Democratic Senate candidates because he wants to prevent an &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; by an unchecked GOP majority.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n &#8220;If they have total power then they will be very, very different from what my beliefs are what the government&#8217;s function should be,&#8221; Jeffords said. &#8220;I think it would be very dangerous for the country.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course he does, and now that the New England Dairy Compact is history, government cheese will be better than ever.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News &#8211; Sen. Jeffords to Campaign for Dems MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) &#8211; Sen. James Jeffords (news &#8211; web sites), an independent who abandoned the Republican party last year, said Wednesday he&#8217;ll campaign for some Democratic Senate candidates because he wants to prevent an &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; by an unchecked GOP majority. &#8220;If they have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/yahoo-news-sen-jeffords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo! News &#8211; Sen. Jeffords&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-36","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}