{"id":5547,"date":"2008-01-11T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2008-01-11T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T01:05:02","slug":"deputies-of-former-doj-voting-rights-chief-john-minorities-die-first-tanner-get-demoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5547","title":{"rendered":"Deputies of Former DoJ Voting Rights Chief John &#8216;Minorities Die First&#8217; Tanner Get Demoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Tanner_103007_Small.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The deputies under former DoJ Voting Right section chief, John &#8220;Minorities Die First&#8221; Tanner, have been demoted by their new acting boss.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, Tanner has finally left his office, just after New Years, after being <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5441\">forced to resign &#8220;immediately&#8221;<\/a> just before Christmas, after making a particularly controversial statement as originally <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5145\">video-taped and revealed by The BRAD BLOG<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Kiel at TPM has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/005060.php\">the full story<\/a> on why the two ladies have been demoted, and what they, along with Tanner, are being investigated for. Kiel also concludes: &#8220;So it seems that the voting section is truly entering a new era. Whether the voting section will reassume its traditional responsibility of protecting African-American voters from discrimination is another question. Only time will tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deputies under former DoJ Voting Right section chief, John &#8220;Minorities Die First&#8221; Tanner, have been demoted by their new acting boss. And yes, Tanner has finally left his office, just after New Years, after being forced to resign &#8220;immediately&#8221; just before Christmas, after making a particularly controversial statement as originally video-taped and revealed by [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,223,321],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-dept-of-justice","category-john-tanner","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}