{"id":931,"date":"2002-09-07T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2002-09-07T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/09\/riordan-write-in-campaign\/"},"modified":"2002-09-07T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2002-09-07T19:15:08","slug":"riordan-write-in-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/07\/riordan-write-in-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Riordan write-in campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Chronicle has a story on the Riordan write-in campaign (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2002\/09\/07\/MN4009.DTL\">Riordan write-in candidacy urged \/ Some think Simon may drop out of race<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But, &#8220;the guys who know Simon best say that he&#8217;s not the type of personality to get out of the race,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>And Simon would be even less likely to bow out if Riordan was the person to get in. The former mayor encouraged Simon to run for governor &#8212; then jumped into the GOP primary himself. When Simon began overhauling Riordan&#8217;s fading campaign in the days before the March election, Riordan went on a personal attack, calling Simon a liar and a &#8220;sanctimonious hypocrite.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simon is not going to get out of the way for Dick Riordan,&#8221; Spillane said. &#8220;The party&#8217;s conservatives would not let him get out of the way.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somebody needs to have a heart-to-heart talk with Simon.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle has a story on the Riordan write-in campaign (Riordan write-in candidacy urged \/ Some think Simon may drop out of race) But, &#8220;the guys who know Simon best say that he&#8217;s not the type of personality to get out of the race,&#8221; he said. And Simon would be even less likely to bow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/07\/riordan-write-in-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riordan write-in campaign&#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-931","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-f1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}