{"id":5110,"date":"2007-09-27T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T05:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2007-09-28T03:17:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T10:17:57","slug":"breaking-gops-ca-electoral-college-initative-scam-dead-says-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5110","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: GOP’s CA Electoral College Initiative<\/strike> Scam Dead, Says LA Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA Times<\/em> is reporting<\/a> tonight that the good guys may<\/i> have won one for a change…<\/p>\n

BREAKING NEWS: Electoral initiative backers give up<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California’s 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July<\/a>, are pulling the plug on that effort.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive report to appear on this website late tonight and in Friday’s print editions, The Times’ Dan Morain reports that the proposal to change the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation to one by congressional district is virtually dead with the resignation of key supporters, internal disputes and a lack of funds.<\/p><\/div>\n

The scam of the attempted Electoral College coup was best exposed in August by Hendrik Hertzberg at New Yorker<\/i><\/a> and more recently found by SF Chronicle<\/em><\/a> to have been backed by a mysteriously funded Missouri<\/i>(!) front group tied to Rudolph Giuliani.<\/p>\n

More at the Times’<\/i> blog<\/a>, though we’d urge caution. GOP attempts to steal 2008 any way they can will not end here, not by a long shot, even if this particular initiative really is dead.<\/p>\n

A leading opponent of the measure, Democratic consultant Chris Lehane, told the Times<\/i>, “We want to to make sure this is not the Freddie Kruger of initiatives…that comes back to life. We’ll continue to monitor it.”<\/p>\n

As will we. Good on the Dems for (maybe) nipping this one in the bud…for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA Times is reporting tonight that the good guys may have won one for a change… BREAKING NEWS: Electoral initiative backers give up Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California’s 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,169,122],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2008"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}