{"id":215,"date":"2002-02-23T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2002-02-23T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/riordans-in-serious-trouble\/"},"modified":"2002-02-23T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2002-02-23T09:18:09","slug":"riordans-in-serious-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/23\/riordans-in-serious-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Riordan&#8217;s in serious trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\twith the base as we countdown to the California Republican primary. His strategy is to look beyond the primary to the general election, but Gray Davis&#8217; attack ads, carping by the party faithful that he&#8217;s not conservative enough, and a spate of ads by well-heeled challenger Bill Simon add up to bad news for the former LA mayor: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/politics\/cal\/la-022302govs.story\">As GOP Primary Looms, Riordan Feels the Heat<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut that strategy of looking past his GOP opponents to the November election has always been a risky one. Now, analysts of all persuasions agree that it could end up keeping a Riordan-Davis matchup from ever taking place. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The major development is that the right wing of the party, which used to be split between Simon and Jones, is consolidating between political rookie Simon. <\/p>\n<p>Countdown to death wish &#8211; only 10 more days.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with the base as we countdown to the California Republican primary. His strategy is to look beyond the primary to the general election, but Gray Davis&#8217; attack ads, carping by the party faithful that he&#8217;s not conservative enough, and a spate of ads by well-heeled challenger Bill Simon add up to bad news for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/23\/riordans-in-serious-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riordan&#8217;s in serious trouble&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","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-3t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}