{"id":344,"date":"2002-03-19T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/swift-retirement\/"},"modified":"2002-03-19T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T18:43:05","slug":"swift-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/19\/swift-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; No sooner does Mitt Romney enter the Governor&#8217;s race in Massachusetts than acting Gov. Jane Swift withdraws. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/daily\/19\/mass_governor.htm\">Boston.com | Latest News | Region<\/a>. Swift&#8217;s poll numbers were a big problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe most recent poll showed Romney leading Swift 75 percent to 12 percent if he entered the race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how much of this is driven by Swift&#8217;s unjust treatment of falsely-convicted Gerald Amirault? At least he now stands some slim chance of getting justice. Bye, Jane &#8211; don&#8217;t slam down your crown on the way out. Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">Josh Marshall<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; No sooner does Mitt Romney enter the Governor&#8217;s race in Massachusetts than acting Gov. Jane Swift withdraws. Boston.com | Latest News | Region. Swift&#8217;s poll numbers were a big problem: The most recent poll showed Romney leading Swift 75 percent to 12 percent if he entered the race. I wonder how much of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/19\/swift-retirement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swift retirement&#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-344","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-5y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}