{"id":2472,"date":"2003-06-06T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/rat-leaves-ship\/"},"modified":"2003-06-06T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2003-06-06T21:03:15","slug":"rat-leaves-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/06\/rat-leaves-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat leaves ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Davis' Closest Political Aide Goes National\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/california\/la-me-south6jun06,1,5247850.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california\">This<\/a> is totally bad news for Gray Davis:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Garry South, the pugnacious political strategist who masterminded Gray Davis&#8217; last three election victories, is signing on as a senior campaign advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph I. Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p>South&#8217;s appointment, to be announced today in Washington, comes as Davis faces the threat of a recall, and means the governor will have to fight back with only part-time help from his closest political aide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>South created Gray Davis, and now he&#8217;s done with him, which probably indicates that Californians generally will be soon.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is totally bad news for Gray Davis: Garry South, the pugnacious political strategist who masterminded Gray Davis&#8217; last three election victories, is signing on as a senior campaign advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph I. Lieberman. South&#8217;s appointment, to be announced today in Washington, comes as Davis faces the threat of a recall, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/06\/rat-leaves-ship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rat leaves ship&#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_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-2472","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-DS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}