{"id":775,"date":"2002-07-03T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2002-07-04T00:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/simply-disgraceful\/"},"modified":"2002-07-03T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2002-07-04T00:13:32","slug":"simply-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/simply-disgraceful\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply Disgraceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; The California Legislature does some pretty despicable things, but this (<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2002\/07\/03\/MN243846.DTL\">Lawmaker loses post after running Oracle probe \/ Assembly speaker installs committee chair who is more sympathetic to governor<\/a>) takes the cake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sacramento &#8212; The Democratic chairman of a committee that probed the state&#8217;s questionable Oracle Corp. contract and embarrassed Gov. Gray Davis was removed from his job Tuesday and replaced with a lawmaker who has been less hostile to the governor. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dean Florez, the Democrat Assemblyman who blew the whistle on the stinky Oracle deal, was replaced by Fred Keeley, the wimp who made a name for himself in the Quackenbush investigation only to be aced-out of a State Senate seat by redistricting. Fred&#8217;s trying to prove he&#8217;s a Party Faithful so they&#8217;ll throw him a bone when he&#8217;s termed-out later this year. What a punk.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; The California Legislature does some pretty despicable things, but this (Lawmaker loses post after running Oracle probe \/ Assembly speaker installs committee chair who is more sympathetic to governor) takes the cake: Sacramento &#8212; The Democratic chairman of a committee that probed the state&#8217;s questionable Oracle Corp. contract and embarrassed Gov. Gray Davis was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/03\/simply-disgraceful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simply Disgraceful&#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-775","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-cv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}